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This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

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

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

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

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

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

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.