A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.

The church is gone, but the graves and legends remain.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.