This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A private home envelops the ruins of this 13th-century priory.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.