This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

Floating pink tap installed for a flower show in London.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

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

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

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

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

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

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.