The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.