This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

This ancient bridge made of stone slabs is said to be reserved for the devil to sunbathe.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.