Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

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

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.