Holywell, Wales
Winifred's Well
The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.
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Holywell, Wales
The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.
Borth, Wales
A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.
Tintern, Wales
This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.
Llanberis, Wales
The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.
Pontarfynach, Wales
Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.
Ruthin, Wales
This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
Denbigh, Wales
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.
Totnes, England
A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.
Newton Abbot, England
This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.
Newton Abbot, England
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
Buckfastleigh, England
This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Truro, England
Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.
Crosstown, England
This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.
Lostwithiel, England
The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.
Camelford, England
A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
Trethevy, England
A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.
Saint Austell, England
400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Berlin, Germany
A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.