Portsmouth, England
Mary Rose
Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.
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Portsmouth, England
Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.
Leek, England
This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Dunwich, England
A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.
Bournemouth, England
A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
London, England
A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Whitby, England
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
Roughlee, England
This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.
Chislehurst, England
Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.
Royston, England
Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.
Rennes-le-Château, France
French commune at the heart of conspiracies.
Bugarach, France
Small French town or alien garage?
Montségur, France
This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
Jaca, Spain
This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.
Sigüés, Spain
A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
Pyongyang, North Korea
North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."
Dakar, Senegal
This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
Nouadhibou, Mauritania
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.