The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

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

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

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

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."