The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A seemingly simple canyon that was the backdrop to a number of famous movies.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

A stone obelisk towering over the surrounding countrysides beckons hikers across the rolling moors.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.