Chillingham, England
Chillingham Castle
This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
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Chillingham, England
This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
Leek, England
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Keswick, England
Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.
Borth, Wales
A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.
Cookley, England
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.
Skipton, England
This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.
Harrogate, England
Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.
Bratton, England
A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.
Manchester, England
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.
Mansfield, England
The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Whitby, England
The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.
Derby, England
6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.
Margate, England
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.
Dalmally, Scotland
Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.
Skipton, England
Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.
Glasgow, Scotland
Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.
Hereford, England
The largest known medieval map of the world.
Mow Cop, England
This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.
Orkney, Scotland
The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.
Great Dunmow, England
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.
Isle of Eigg, Scotland
This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.
Isle of Bute, Scotland
A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.
Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.