Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

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

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

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

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A student driver's nightmare.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.