A gigantic mechanical bull rages over unsuspecting passengers at Birmingham’s central station.

The Birthplace of the Englishman who founded the A.C. Milan football club.

A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A haunted slate mine turned concert hall and a hidden fairy garden.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

Trimmings from the record-setting tree line that surrounds Cirencester Park have been used to manufacture chemotherapy drugs.

A classic red phone box converted into an informal village library.

Instead of numerals, the unusual clock face spells out a memorial to a lost loved one.

A granite plane marks the site where a French aviator completed the first airplane flight across the English channel.

Almost too short to be an actual street, this stretch of road maintains a unique moniker.

This forgotten chalk mine was reopened thanks to a massive effort from the local community.

Europe's "only museum dedicated to the decapod" is full of quirky and absurdist displays, including one featuring the "famous" Giant Crab of Margate.

At the center of London’s oldest roundabout stands an obelisk that was erected in 1771, but spent several decades elsewhere.

The remains of the debtor’s prison that shaped Charles Dickens’ life and writing.