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.

This Great Dunmow pond was a breeding ground for medical leeches, as well as the testing ground for the world's first lifeboat.

The “bridge of return” is haunted by a myriad of legends, from ghosts to demons to nuptial superstitions.

This may be the world's only drive-through windmill.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

The world's largest collection of fire-fighting items dating back almost 350 years.

It is said that coins washed in the waters here will miraculously multiply.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

The ruins of a military fortification sit atop this mountain.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

Over 40 species of fern cover the canyon walls of this lush green bowl, cut off from the bustle of the world by a cave entrance.

An Art Nouveau church decorated in mother-of-pearl and aluminum.