Caynton, England
Caynton Caves
This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.
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Caynton, England
This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.
Chesterfield, England
A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.
Sheffield, England
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
Bristol, England
The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.
Salford, England
This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.
Slack Head, England
These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.
Manchester, England
Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.
Newquay, England
Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.
Ilkley, England
This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.
Winchester, England
This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.
Broadway, England
A petite castle folly in the English countryside.
Hope Valley, England
A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom
Oxford, England
Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.
Nottingham, England
A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.
Wareham, England
In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.
Tring, England
Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.
Penzance, England
A circle stone within a stone circle.
Oxford, England
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
Bodmin, England
This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.
Congleton, England
This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.
Worksop, England
A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.
England
A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Hagley, England
An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.