Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This precipitous pathway with its wrought iron handrail was created by the Victorians as a tourist attraction.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

In a quiet hamlet above Penistone, these village stocks are still standing.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

A replica of the famed statue far from home.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

These ruins are a monument to the region's industrial heritage, and the site of England's worst mining tragedy.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

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