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A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

This abandoned lock-up was saved because of its connection to a local football team.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.