This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

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

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.