This 12th-century house is one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

Through seven years of burglary, bereavement, and bad luck, a gentleman kept his word by saying none.

A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.

One could not be blamed for literally walking all over this supposed landmark.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The first museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to this woodwind instrument.

This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.

A rocky outcrop where monks hid their most holy relic while escaping Danish invaders.

This Scottish bay still reveals evidence of its days as a seaside swimming pool.

Decaying 18th-century church converted to a single-family home.

One of four sister bronze sculptures dedicated to the widows and orphans of an 1881 tragedy.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

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

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

A rare example of the RAF’s flying spy taxi.

Chemical fertilizer in agriculture's origin story begins here.

Home to one of the tallest church spires in Europe, this historic church once played host to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

In the quiet village of Fulmodestion, the ruins of a medieval church remain hidden among vines and foliage.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.