A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?

A rare example of a Lowland broch.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

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

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

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

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

This haunted 17th-century pub was moved to a new city when it was already almost 300 years old.

One of the trees in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is actually a World War II memorial, and it's made of metal.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

An obscure walkway dedicated to a scientist who helped pave the way for the world to sit up and take notice of Manchester.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.