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A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

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

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.