Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.