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This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

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

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

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.