Hereford, England
Hereford Cathedral Chained Library
Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.
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Hereford, England
Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.
Royston, England
Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.
Grangemouth, Scotland
The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.
Haddington, Scotland
Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."
Eyam, England
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
Cardross, Scotland
One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
Ripon, England
One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.
Glasgow, Scotland
A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Saint Austell, England
400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.
North Berwick, Scotland
The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Burnley, England
A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.
Chislehurst, England
Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Drymen, Scotland
This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.