Montenegro
Mamula Island
Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.
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Montenegro
Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.
Grahovo, Montenegro
This memorial to local World War II heroes is slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Bradfield Dale, England
The collapse of the brand-new dam caused one of the worst floods in British history.
Elsecar, England
This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.
Wentworth, England
This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.
Sheffield, England
Floating on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal is a contorted canal boat that honors the waterway’s heritage.
Penrith, England
It may not be the final resting place of a literal giant, but the Giant’s Grave is still archaeologically important.
Heysham, England
A succinct inscription commemorates the ebb and flow of a woman's life.
Copley, England
This industrial chimney looks rather out of place, isolated in the middle of an attractive woodland.
Colne, England
The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.
Penrith, England
Legends say this red sandstone monolith and the dozens of smaller boulders that surround it were once a coven of witches—before a Scottish wizard turned them all to stone.
Smardale, England
A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.
Borrowdale, England
A 2,000-ton rock resting in a state of a delicate balance.
Robin Hood's Bay, England
This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.
Hutton Mulgrave, England
Almost nothing but earthworks remain of this long-lost castle.
Whitby, England
A monument to the real explorer and bear who inspired characters in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
Liverpool, England
Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.
Harrogate, England
Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.
Ashton-in-Makerfield, England
Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.
Ilkeston, England
A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.
Haslingden, England
At night, the enormous sculpture looks like a UFO hovering above the English hills.
Stapleford, England
Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.
Oxton, England
This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.