A surprisingly approachable statue of the man who dominated King Henry VIII's government.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

Keep a lookout for replicas of this wooden soldier hiding in plain sight all around town.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

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

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.