Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

Legends say this red sandstone monolith and the dozens of smaller boulders that surround it were once a coven of witches—before a Scottish wizard turned them all to stone.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

It's believed a local adventurer spent 50 years living inside this cave.

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

One of the best-preserved, yet least visited stone circle sites in Cumbria.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

The overgrown ruins of this once majestic castle sit forlornly in the Scottish countryside.

These ruins of a medieval church are full of architectural mysteries.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

This lovely Scottish nature walk leads to the source of a local legend.

This rare surviving broch is one of Scotland's most impressive Bronze Age structures.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.