Newton Abbot, England
Hound Tor
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
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Newton Abbot, England
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
Hereford, England
The largest known medieval map of the world.
Birmingham, England
This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.
Buxton, England
These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.
Swanage, England
65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.
North Yorkshire, England
This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.
Buckfastleigh, England
This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.
Caynton, England
This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.
Lancaster, England
A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.
Coventry, England
This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.
London, England
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
Birmingham, England
This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.
Keld, England
The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.
Kidderminster, England
Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.
Canterbury, England
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Canterbury, England
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
London, England
According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.
Ely, England
A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
Bristol, England
England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.
Cambridge, England
Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.
Cramlington, England
A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.
Kingsbridge, England
Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.