The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

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

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

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

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.