This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

A stone obelisk towering over the surrounding countrysides beckons hikers across the rolling moors.

The longest cutting on the M62 contains some surprises—though it's best to leave the motorway to appreciate them.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

The tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom.

A giant dish used in this village's long tradition of baking absurdly large meat pies now serves as a flowerbed.

The house in the middle of the motorway.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

A comfortable-looking armchair and a grandfather clock have been sitting on this sidewalk for the last 30 years.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

One of Europe's largest groups of dolmens remains largely off the typical tourist track.

An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

The ruins of a 16th-century bridge loom over Olivença's sovereignty.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

The corpse bride of Portugal.