Hartfield, England
Five Hundred Acre Wood
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
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Hartfield, England
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
Mow Cop, England
This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
Leek, England
This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.
Melrose, Scotland
This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.
London, England
London's largest outsider art museum.
Pembroke, Wales
A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.
Pontarfynach, Wales
Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
London, England
A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.
London, England
The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.
Dunning, Scotland
A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.
Alexandria, Scotland
A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.
Alexandria, Scotland
Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.
London, England
The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
Chester, England
Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.
Ripon, England
One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.
East Molesey, England
England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.
Edinburgh, Scotland
There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.
North Chideock, England
These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.
Camelford, England
A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.
Stow-on-the-Wold, England
This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.
London, England
Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.