This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.

A cottage built at the birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who inspired the novel 'Robinson Crusoe.'

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Contrary to its heavenly name, this tranquil oasis has a dark and tragic history buried with it (quite literally).

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

This 20th-century replica of a 13th-century castle has itself fallen into ruin.

Locals spent years successfully fighting to save this beloved Brutalist behemoth from demolition.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.