The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

A letterbox installed specifically for the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Legend says this public grazing area hasn't been plowed for thousands of years.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

Chester Cathedral is home to a unique painting crafted on a canvas of cobwebs.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A 168-foot tower, part of the abandoned Chester Leadworks facility.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

A distinctive monument for this former world champion takes the form of a billiards table, complete with balls and cue.

A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.