Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

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

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

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.