Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

This unusual 7th-century Frankish seal offers more questions than answers about its past.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.