An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.