Essex, England
Hangman’s Hill
The spirit of an executioner is said to cause cars to roll uphill in this English forest.
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Essex, England
The spirit of an executioner is said to cause cars to roll uphill in this English forest.
Kelvedon Hatch, England
The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.
Stansted, England
This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.
Ware, England
Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.
London, England
The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
London, England
Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.
Ibiza, Spain
The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.
London, England
The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.
London, England
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
London, England
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
London, England
This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
London, England
Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
London, England
A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.