In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.

These murals stand as reminders to the troubled history of this Northern Ireland city.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

Across the islands, baked goods, sauces, and much more are for sale 24/7.

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

This waterfall is one of the most spectacular natural features in the Scottish Lowlands.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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