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This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

Home to one of the tallest church spires in Europe, this historic church once played host to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

This modern labyrinth lies in the shadow of a ruined medieval castle.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

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

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.