Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

These unassuming buildings in the tranquil churchyard of rural Warblington are in fact grave watchers’ huts.

Three tiny islands in a Portsmouth pond are at the center of disputed land claims from a number of competing micronations.

This figure was cut into the hillside in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

A beautifully-carved Pictish stone encased in a protective glass structure.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

One of a series of sculptures making a statement about sea-level rise in the United Kingdom.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

A failed infrastructure project now owns this unique moniker.

A memorial dedicated to a boating accident that was bringing troops back home from World War I.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

A memorial to the acting bear whose escape caused a sensation on the Outer Hebrides.

When a missile testing site was proposed near this site in the Outer Hebrides, this statue was commissioned in response.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.