Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.

Beautiful scenery provides the backdrop for an abandoned coastguard facility.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

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

A glimpse into the festive and private lives of medieval Europe.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.