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Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Britain’s longest ancient monument, this great 8th century earthwork was built to mark the boundary between what would become England and Wales.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

A 17th-century church is nestled within the walls of a 15th-century ruin.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.