Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

This strategically placed hill fort has served defensive forces from the Iron Age up until the 20th century.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.