These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

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

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

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

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

Decaying 18th-century church converted to a single-family home.

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

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

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

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

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

WWII artifacts, including the building itself.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

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