Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

This rare aquatic phenomenon is one of the more accessible tidal bores in Morecambe Bay.

This abandoned limestone quarry now provides visitors with multiple, breathtaking viewpoints.

These ancient rock graves were featured on the cover of a Black Sabbath compilation album.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

During World War II, locals rallied together to buy this plane to support the war effort.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

The world’s oldest boat lift is also known in the United Kingdom as the "Cathedral of the Canals" and one of the "Seven Wonders of the Waterways."

This towering, fire-breathing dragon guards a community’s buried treasure.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

A cheeky tribute to a comedy legend.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

In a resort town where the real Alice spent her summer holidays, iconic characters create a curious trail.

What was once the world's second largest slate quarry is now a surreal post-industrial landscape

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

This mural honoring a drowned village has become a symbol of Welsh pride and patriotism.

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.