Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

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

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

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

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Stay in the one time home to one of Scotland's most notorious gentleman's sex clubs.

This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

A rare permanent monument to the Scottish Travellers.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

“It has nae lugs!”

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."