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Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."