19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

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

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

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

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

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

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.