These ruins of a medieval church are full of architectural mysteries.

A poignant memorial shows the widows and children left heartbroken by the worst fishing disaster in Scottish history.

Decaying 18th-century church converted to a single-family home.

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

A collection of maritime artifacts from the world's first volunteer life brigade.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

These shopping center benches are actually a modern art installation.