The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This stone once marked the boundaries of Liverpool's medieval markets.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

Instead of numerals, the unusual clock face spells out a memorial to a lost loved one.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.