Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

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

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

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

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

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

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

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

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.