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At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.