Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.

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

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

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

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

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.