Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

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.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

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

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

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

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A thousand year old oak tree survives in Liverpool.

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

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

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

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

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

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

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

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.