This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

In the depths of Glasgow Cathedral's crypt, one pillar stands out from all others.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.