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Cumbria, England

Ravenglass Roman Bath House

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

Todmorden Toy & Model Museum

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.
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Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

The Ruthwell Cross

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.
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Menston, England

High Royds Hospital

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

Alice Nutter Statue

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.
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Holy Island of Lindisfarne, England

Pilgrims Way to Holy Island

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

Cottingley Beck

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
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Northumberland, England

St. Nicholas Church House

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

Kielder Observatory

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.
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Chillingham, England

Chillingham Castle

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
North Yorkshire, England

Gaping Gill

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.
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North Yorkshire, England

Malham Cove

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.
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Yorkshire, England

Bolton Strid

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.
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Alnwick, England

Alnwick Poison Garden

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."
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York, England

York Cold War Bunker

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.
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York, England

Cat Statues of York

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.
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Cumbria, England

Epiacum

A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.
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Harrogate, England

Old Swan Hotel

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.
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England

Mother Shipton's Cave and the Petrifying Well

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
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North Yorkshire, England

Fountains Abbey

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

Eden Camp

WWII artifacts, including the building itself.
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Coverham, England

Forbidden Corner

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.
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North Yorkshire, England

Red Telephone Box Graveyard

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.
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Barnard Castle, England

The Silver Swan

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
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