This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

Carved initials which are nearly 500 years old preserve the deposed Queen's presence at Hampton Court Palace.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

A reportedly haunted 14th century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.