This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

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

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.