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

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

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A reportedly haunted 14th century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

A great example of the inventive canal bridges that were deliberately split down the middle.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

A face-like natural rock formation so well known, a pub was named in its honor.

This stone throne invites adventurers to observe breathtaking views of the Peak District.

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.