This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

This ancient bridge made of stone slabs is said to be reserved for the devil to sunbathe.