The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.