The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.