Places Edited by SEANETTA ALLSASS

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

A plaque marks the humble origins of an artistic muse who embodied the ideals of Pre-Raphaelite beauty.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A carved bench marks the Scottish cave that inspired the classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Twice a year, this Orkney town hosts a rowdy game of medieval mob football.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.