A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Contrary to its heavenly name, this tranquil oasis has a dark and tragic history buried with it (quite literally).

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

The much-beloved mascot of a local museum.

This coin collecting cod is over 130 years old, and the United Kingdom's smallest listed structure.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

A creepy tree with a local legend that inspired a nearby theme park ride.

This massive memorial commemorates those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.