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The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

This tiny little cave was said to have been a refuge for a saint with a glowing arm.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.