Barrow-in-Furness, England
Furness Abbey
What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.
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Barrow-in-Furness, England
What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.
Hallsands, England
The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.
London, England
This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.
Margate, England
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.
Roche, England
This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.
Swanage, England
65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.
Keld, England
The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.
Royston, England
Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.
Canterbury, England
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
London, England
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
London, England
One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.
Rye, England
This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.
Chesterfield, England
A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.
West Wycombe, England
Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
Chislehurst, England
Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.
York, England
Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.
Chester, England
Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.
London, England
The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.
Tintagel, England
A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.