Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

Britain's only artificial surfing lake is nestled in the beautiful mountains of Wales.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

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

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.