Dunfermline, Scotland
Saint Margaret's Cave
A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.
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Dunfermline, Scotland
A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Dunbar, Scotland
At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Berkhamsted, England
This early Norman castle was the first historical monument protected by an act of Parliament.
Blaenau Gwent, Wales
A memorial to the British politician who spearheaded the National Health Service.
Little Gaddesden, England
Local legend says this unusual chimney is actually a broken-hearted man's tomb.
Cambridge, England
An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.
Bourton-on-the-Water, England
Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.
Dumfries, Scotland
An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.
Peterborough, England
The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.
Worcester, England
Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.
Sunderland, England
This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.
Ludlow, England
Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.
Grantham, England
One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
Nottingham, England
A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.
Blidworth, England
A mysterious medieval monument said to mark the final resting place of Robin Hood’s henchman.
Nottingham, England
The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.
Kings Clipstone, England
These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.
Derby, England
This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.
Nottingham, England
This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.
Burton-on-Trent, England
The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.