A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

One of the first canal boat-lift inclines ever created.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

This former football stadium seems almost abandoned but is still in use by the next generation of Scottish sports stars.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

This hill nestled in the Scottish lowlands was a ritual site for over 4,000 years.

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

A grave marker depicting a body snatching tableau on a 19th-century tombstone.

This monument dedicated to the legendary American showman can be found in Scotland's largest city.