This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

An aeronautical-themed resort forged around rusty relics from the golden age of air travel.

The unusual stilted beacon is the town's only active lighthouse.

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

An abandoned suspension bridge on the Falkland Islands is crumbling into the water.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

The world's largest bust sculpture celebrates the Hindu deity, Shiva.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.