This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

Touching displays of wishes for peace from the Cold War era.

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

Skyscraper powered by wind turbines attached between its towers.