A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A memorial commemorating the only Scottish police investigation into an extraterrestrial incident.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

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

The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

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

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

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