Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Flannan Isle Lighthouse
What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.
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Outer Hebrides, Scotland
What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.
Ponsanooth, England
A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.
Hereford, England
Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.
Tring, England
Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.
Strathcarron, Scotland
This single-track road rewards brave drivers with stunning Scottish scenery.
Buckfastleigh, England
This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.
East Wemyss, Scotland
These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.
London , England
The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.
Chipping Norton, England
This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
Whitby, England
The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.
Oxford, England
A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.
Mawnan Smith, England
The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.
Windsor, England
One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.
Waterloo, England
A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.
Claines, England
This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.
Llandudno, Wales
The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.
Stamford, England
England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Ilkley, England
This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.
Nottingham, England
The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.
Newton Abbot, England
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
Blackpool, England
This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.
Bristol, England
The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.