Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

Floating pink tap installed for a flower show in London.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

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