The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

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.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

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

This stone throne invites adventurers to observe breathtaking views of the Peak District.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Every July, men dressed as giant crows dance around a scarecrow who comes to life.

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

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.