Whitby, England
Ruins of Whitby Abbey
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
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Whitby, England
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Broadway, England
A petite castle folly in the English countryside.
Bourton-on-the-Water, England
A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.
Swindon, England
This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.
Bath, England
Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.
Krusevo, North Macedonia
Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Tongwynlais, Wales
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.
Blaenavon, Wales
This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.
Wales
This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.
Corofin, Ireland
A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.