For over two centuries, this palace served as a residence for the Holy Roman Inquisition's leaders, a courthouse, and a prison.

These 19th-century military fortifications spanning the island of Malta now form a nice countryside hiking trail.

This 50-foot-deep sinkhole created in the 14th century is home to rare plants and fungi.

This unique building in the main square stands out among the city's typically Baroque architecture.

Malta’s oldest sea water distillation building is now an architectural anomaly on the Sliema waterfront.

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

One of Malta’s most important Neolithic sites sits in a suburban area south of the country’s capital.

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

The grave of the mythical giant who stole from wealthy bakers to give to the poor.

This World War II airfield is the last place the bandleader performed before he disappeared.

Detailed sandstone carvings show an array of symbolism and adorable animals.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

One of the oldest and most majestic living trees in Britain, thought to be over 1,500 years old.

A Norman church with some of England's best-preserved medieval wall paintings

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

On a site with a long military history, a 1980s shelter.

This 8-foot Anglo-Saxon cross is a rare surviving example of Mercian craftsmanship.

These once housed the families who decided in 1665 to quarantine themselves to save their neighbours.

This 20th-century replica of a 13th-century castle has itself fallen into ruin.