Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

This peaceful oasis appears dreamy, but it's also the site of a nightmarish legend.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

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

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.