Aberystwyth, Wales
Sol Cinema
The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.
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Aberystwyth, Wales
The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.
Aberystwyth, Wales
A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”
Denbigh, Wales
Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.
King's Lynn, England
The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.
Ongar, England
This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.
Great Dunmow, England
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.
Birmingham, England
This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Durrës, Albania
The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.
Shkodër, Albania
According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.
Tirana, Albania
Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The largest collection of death masks in Ukraine.
Lviv, Ukraine
The largest park in Lviv is surrounded by a network of disused rail tracks.
Tarakaniv, Ukraine
This hidden fortress has been coined the "City of Ghosts."
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Remains of a station that only operated for one year.
Slavutych, Ukraine
The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.
Kamianets'-podil's'kyi, Ukraine
This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.
Pidhirtsi, Ukraine
One of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.