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Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.