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A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.