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

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

This Roman quarry once held secret masses and smuggler's contraband and is now home to rare species of bats.

A stone wall commemorates the legend of a ferocious dragon who literally got his butt kicked by a knight.

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

A weird and wonderful collection of items that pique curiosity and haunt nightmares.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

This ancient oak tree sheltered accused "witches" in the 17th century.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

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

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

The world's oldest model village.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.