The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

The Last Home of an Executed King.

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

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.