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This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

Britain’s longest ancient monument, this great 8th century earthwork was built to mark the boundary between what would become England and Wales.

These centuries old gardens have been restored to their 17th century condition.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Some wattle-and-daub, a Moorish mural, a glacial erratic, and a Giant named Gilbert.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

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

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.