Gloucester, England
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling
Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.
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Gloucester, England
Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.
Painswick, England
Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.
Berkeley, England
Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.
Hampton Fields, England
Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.
Uley, England
You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.
Berkeley, England
The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.
Bristol, England
The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.
Bristol, England
The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.
Bristol, England
A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Nottingham, England
An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.
West Stockwith, England
In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.