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This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

A stone obelisk towering over the surrounding countrysides beckons hikers across the rolling moors.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

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

An engraved stone in a village church claims to be the grave of a minuscule folk legend.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

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

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

A headstone notes where the most famous of Robin Hood's legendary Merry Men is reportedly buried.