The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

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

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

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

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

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

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.