An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.

These medieval carvings bear scars left by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War.

Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

This eclectic antique shop is home to the taxidermy remains of a celebrity lion named Simba.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

Once a gas station, this flightless airplane beside the Old Dixie Highway now houses a barbershop.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.