When methane gas started seeping up from the ground, they picked up and moved the entire town.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This house was home to a succession of park keepers for more than 90 years, but in all that time, it never had a toilet.

The last surviving roundhouse in the United Kingdom also plays host to a popular annual beer and music festival.

A gardener saved a beloved clock face from destruction by building it into a wall outside his house.

This iconic Peak District ridge was once one of the busiest roads in medieval Britain.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.