The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

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

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

A historic house devoted to the teachings of a 1700's prophetess and her mysterious box of revelations.

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

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

Aliens and monsters lurk inside this museum dedicated to one man's lifelong adoration of all things sci-fi.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.