This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A surprisingly approachable statue of the man who dominated King Henry VIII's government.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

Keep a lookout for replicas of this wooden soldier hiding in plain sight all around town.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.