Trimmings from the record-setting tree line that surrounds Cirencester Park have been used to manufacture chemotherapy drugs.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

The initials "GW" mark where one of Scotland's most important Protestant martyrs was burned at the stake.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Legend says this ancient pagan site can cure all ailments.

A neolithic dolmen that was rebuilt after collapsing during the 19th century.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

The remains of what was once a motte-and-bailey castle, these earthworks offer visitors a tangible connection to England’s medieval past.

This beautifully situated lakeside Roman settlement was likely built during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.

This small village museum contains the schoolboy scratchings of William Wordsworth.

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

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.