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Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The remnants of a classic 1970's British film.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

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

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.