Hull, England
The Hull Mermaid
This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.
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Hull, England
This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.
Cambridge, England
This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.
Folkestone, England
One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.
Lynford, England
A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.
Bath and North East Somerset, England
An Iron Age hillfort rooted in Arthurian legend was made famous by musician Peter Gabriel.
Cambridge, England
One of several Lilliputian portals that are ready to transport passengers to other dimensions, if they can find them.
Norwich, England
This imprint of an old computer keyboard has a unique backstory.
Minions, England
Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.
Wilmington, England
This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.
Sandown, England
This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.
Harrogate, England
The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.
Kirkby Lonsdale, England
A beautiful medieval bridge allegedly constructed by the Devil.
Stilton, England
Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Maidstone, England
This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.
Chesterfield, England
This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.
Shireoaks, England
This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.
Haslingden, England
At night, the enormous sculpture looks like a UFO hovering above the English hills.
Thirsk, England
England's largest white horse isn't even white.
Saint Helens, England
Giant statue of a disembodied head.
Alton, England
A creepy tree with a local legend that inspired a nearby theme park ride.
Hamsey, England
Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.
East Somerton, England
A witch wreaks ruinous revenge on this ancient church with her "enchanted leg."
Ludlow, England
Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.
Hastings, England
This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.