Places Snakes for Hair Wants to Go

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

Decaying 18th-century church converted to a single-family home.

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

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

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

This tranquil churchyard in the heart of England’s mining country whispers tales of both triumph and tragedy.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

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

Don't worry, they don't use antique scissors.

A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.

The Last Home of an Executed King.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.