Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Hirta Island Ghost Town
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
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Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Roslin, Scotland
A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk, Netherlands
Hop aboard a charming bog train to explore this rare open-air museum of peat.
Burnley, England
A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.
London, England
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
Liverpool, England
19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.
Swansea, Wales
Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.
Allerton Mauleverer, England
This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Pontarfynach, Wales
Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.
Cleethorpes, England
The first privately owned air raid shelter in Britain, built after a horrifying night of Zeppelin bombings.
Oxton, England
This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.
Mansfield, England
An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.
Alderwasley, England
This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."
Birchover, England
This mysterious hilltop collection of Druid carvings isn't quite what it seems.
Stanton Lees, England
Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.
Hope Valley, England
There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.
Sheffield, England
In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.
Sheffield, England
One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.
Sheffield, England
Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.