The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

The now-quiet remains of coastal artillery defenses that were used in both World Wars.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

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

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

The Last Home of an Executed King.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

This cathedral's stained-glass patchwork of psychedelic colors and shapes was put in place long before the swinging 60s.

The rusting relics of Southampton's former luxurious flying boat industry.