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Lud's Church

Leek, England

Lud's Church

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

Tree and shrub growth has softened the crater but it's scale is still apparent

Burton-on-Trent, England

The Hanbury Crater

The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.

Restored furnace top allows visitors to look down into the structure.

Moira, England

Moira Furnace

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

Devonshire Dome , external view.

Buxton, England

The Devonshire Dome

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

Dovedale stepping stones in 2012.

Ashbourne, England

Dovedale Stepping Stones

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

Calke Abbey

Ticknall, England

Calke Abbey

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Bradgate House.

Newtown Linford, England

Bradgate House

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

Grime's Graves Neolithic flint mines.

Lynford, England

Grime's Graves

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

The causeway part of the bridge over the floodplain and marshes

Derby, England

Swarkestone Bridge

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

Sheepwash  Pen and Lambs' Bank

Ashford in the Water, England

Sheepwash Pen and Lambs' Bank

This unique creation was used to house and wash sheep prior to shearing.

Rowtor Rocks.

Birchover, England

Rowtor Rocks

This mysterious hilltop collection of Druid carvings isn't quite what it seems.

The Nine Ladies.

Stanton Lees, England

Nine Ladies Stone Circle

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

Jacqard looms which used a card reader for automated pattern weaving

Matlock Bath, England

Masson Mill

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

water sources

Cromford, England

Cromford Mill

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

Ice cream on North Parade in Matlock Bath.

Matlock Bath, England

Matlock Bath

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

The South Front and the South Lawn with the Seahorse Fountain. The exterior steps are a 19th century replacement for the original horseshoe shaped steps. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bakewell, England

Chatsworth House

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Crich Stand, the War Memorial of the Sherwood Foresters.

Crich, England

Crich Stand

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

The east wall.

Oakham, England

Oakham Castle Horseshoes

Hundreds of huge, centuries-old horseshoes adorn the walls of this nontraditional 12th-century castle.

Normanton Church.

Normanton, England

Normanton Church

The sanctuary seems to either float atop the water or sink into the dirt, depending on the water level.

St. Mary and All Saints Church's spire.

Chesterfield, England

Chesterfield's Crooked Spire

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem0115 947 3171

Nottingham, England

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The Flying Horse

Nottingham, England

The Flying Horse

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

Tunnel with steps cut into a cliff face.

Chesterfield, England

The Caves of Nottingham

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The west facade of the abbey, which dates to the 13th century.

Nottingham, England

Newstead Abbey

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

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