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A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

This eclectic sanctuary is a hodgepodge of various architectural styles, all crammed into one building.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.