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

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

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The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

From here, the loch appears to take the shape of mainland Scotland.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

17th century palace once a meeting place for politicians.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This eccentric folly house was designed by Romanian thinker Bogdan-Petriceicu Hasdeu, with a helping hand from his deceased daughter's spirit.

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

Climbing to the top of the cathedral's bell tower offers sweeping views of these medieval ruins.

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."