Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

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

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

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

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.