Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

Long abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.