A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.