These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

Welsh literary history is preserved in the delicate pages of these medieval manuscripts.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

The lighthouse is on a island which is connected to another island, which is connected to another island, which is connected to one of the largest islands in the world.

Legends say that this small island was the final resting place of the Welsh saint of lovers.

One of the oldest suspension bridges in the world blends in perfectly with a medieval castle.

This towering, fire-breathing dragon guards a community’s buried treasure.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

The sole surviving medieval street cross in Scarborough.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

The most impressive falls in Wensleydale once produced power to weave the uniform of an Italian revolution.

The Church of St Andrew in Aysgarth contains internal fittings taken from a nearby Abbey during the dissolution, including this fine, medieval rood screen

A churchyard in Ardsley houses a memorial dedicated to the victims of England’s worst mining disaster.

Mediaeval cross marking an old Roman ridgeway on the top of moors in the Peak District.

These crude contraptions were used to aid in the mining of lead, silver and gold.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

Located behind the Riverside Pub is a nautical fantasy from one of the area's renowned street artists.

Legend says that Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife, leaving behind this round valley.

At the height of alum production at this factory, human urine was a valued commodity.