A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.

Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

This landmark Victorian folly rewards visitors with spectacular views over the Peak District.

This mysterious hilltop collection of Druid carvings isn't quite what it seems.

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

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

This English medieval castle is where King John died of dysentery.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

The undercroft is a spectacular example of medieval Cistercian architecture.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.