This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.

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

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

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

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

This English medieval castle is where King John died of dysentery.

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

These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

The undercroft is a spectacular example of medieval Cistercian architecture.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

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

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

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

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

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

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

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