Places Edited by Steve 55

The remains of the oldest synagogue in Britain lay forgotten for seven centuries, hidden under a humble shop.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.