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Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

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

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.