Nottingham, England
The Flying Horse
A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.
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Nottingham, England
A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.
Hope Valley, England
There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.
Bakewell, England
Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.
Leek, England
This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.
Nottingham, England
A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.
Coverham, England
A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.
Weston, England
Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.
Lancaster, England
The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.
Wilkieston, Scotland
Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Oxford, England
An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Stoney Stanton, England
The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.
Ilkeston, England
This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.
Bewdley, England
The church is gone, but the graves and legends remain.
Nottingham, England
Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.
Nottingham, England
There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.
Nottingham, England
An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.