Airdrie, Scotland
Scotland's Secret Bunker
A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.
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Airdrie, Scotland
A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.
Anstruther, Scotland
Stay in the one time home to one of Scotland's most notorious gentleman's sex clubs.
Manningtree, England
This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.
Sussex, England
The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.
Thorpeness, England
Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.
London , England
The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.
Manchester, England
Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.
London, England
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
Ironbridge, England
This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.
Swanage, England
65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.
Cookley, England
Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.
Cricket Saint Thomas, England
The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.
Keswick, England
Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.
Leek, England
This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.
Winchester, England
This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.
Chillingham, England
This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
Wales
This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.
Ruthin, Wales
This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.
Exeter, England
These medieval tunnels provided water to the city above through centuries of civil war and plague.
Lancaster, England
The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.
London, England
The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.