Dale Abbey, England
Hermits Cave at Dale Abbey
Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.
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Dale Abbey, England
Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.
Penzance, England
Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.
Birmingham, England
An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.
Newton Abbot, England
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
Roche, England
This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.
Launceston, England
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.
Swanage, England
65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.
Kirkstall, England
Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.
Marlborough, England
It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.
Buxton, England
These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.
Keld, England
The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.
Lancaster, England
A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.
Sheffield, England
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
Liverpool, England
19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.
Cambridge, England
Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.
Newquay, England
Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.
Dunwich, England
A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.
Ilkley, England
This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.
Oxford, England
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
Slack Head, England
These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.
Worksop, England
A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.
London, England
This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.
Tring, England
Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.
Lyme Regis, England
A midnight snack that lights up the night.