Sheffield, England
Alfred Denny Museum
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
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Sheffield, England
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
Trethevy, England
A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
Grangemouth, Scotland
The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.
Royston, England
Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Kelvedon Hatch, England
The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.
Leek, England
This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.
Torwood, Scotland
The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.
Broadway, England
A petite castle folly in the English countryside.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Glasgow, Scotland
A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.
Weston, England
Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
Ware, England
Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.
Bournemouth, England
A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.
Buxton, England
This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.
London, England
Traveling collection of amazing automata.
Greatstone, England
Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.