Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

The eccentricities of a former lord include painted pigeons of his manor house, a series of pointless plaques, and a folly built simply to peeve the public.

The largest public library in the United Kingdom was designed to reflect the industrial and artistic history of the city where it stands.

A collection of historic buildings in central Birmingham blend seamlessly into the cityscape but have an interesting story to tell.

A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

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

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.