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Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

The remains of the oldest synagogue in Britain lay forgotten for seven centuries, hidden under a humble shop.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

An abandoned canal route lies hidden under the streets of Manchester.

This delightful hidden farm is home to Victorian ruins and a wonderful menagerie of animals.

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

Cathedral-like Victorian vaults are hidden within this iconic bridge.

An unusual seafront museum hides behind an unassuming Ventnor giftshop.

On this spot Lord Kelvin allegedly discovered absolute zero.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.