The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.