A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.