Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

The remnants of this unusual bridge await an uncertain fate.

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

A 16th-century footpath said to be haunted by a young girl that died trapped within its misshapen old house.

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

The charming collection illustrates life in Lincolnshire in the 18th through 20th centuries.

A historic Georgian building and warm springs.

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

A medieval abbey featured on 'Game of Thrones' that dates back to the 12th-century.

This overgrown Victorian chapel made of corrugated metal looks utterly out of place.

This unusual 7th-century Frankish seal offers more questions than answers about its past.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

A medieval cave used to shelter local hermits now holds nearly 200 old Quaker gravestones.

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

This picturesque lighthouse at the edge of the Irish Sea looks like a giant stone pencil.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.