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This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

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

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.