This Elizabethan House, which is now a natural history museum,  played the role of Wayne Manor in a famous movie and played a really important role in WW2 as the base for the US 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

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

In honor of a local spinster's dying wish, this chapel harbors an eerily lifelike wax effigy.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

The remains of a legendary WWII weapon prototype.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Remains of a keep that was built shortly after the Norman conquest of England.

This park features a wooden causeway preserved since the Neolithic era.

Some of the most enduring novels in English literature were written within the walls of this Georgian-era building.