The world's oldest model village.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.