Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.