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Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, this yew may be Britain’s oldest.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

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

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

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

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

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

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.