A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

The world's oldest model village.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

A cargo of beautiful music.