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The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

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

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.