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

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

A reportedly haunted 14th century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.