A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

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

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.