kateleach's User Profile - Atlas Obscura
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Edinburgh, Scotland

Wild West Morningside

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.
Waterloo, England

'Another Place'

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.
England

Devil's Bridge on Spooky Lane

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.
Lincolnshire, England

Bowthorpe Oak

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.
Ely, England

Octagon Tower

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
Blackpool, England

High Tide Organ

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Launch Site of the Titanic

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.
Cornwall, England

Mên-an-Tol (Circle Stone)

A circle stone within a stone circle.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England

The Nutshell Pub

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
Scotland

Corryvreckan Whirlpool

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.
Edinburgh, Scotland

6 Times

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.
London, England

Down Street Underground Station

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.
Downe, England

Down House

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.
Liverpool, England

Penny Lane

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.
Derbyshire, England

Winnats Pass

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

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Giant naked man on a hillside.
Suffolk, England

Principality of Sealand

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Wales

Whiteford Lighthouse

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.
Hereford, England

Hereford Mappa Mundi

The largest known medieval map of the world.
Dorset, England

Tyneham Ghost Village

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.
Bodiam, England

Bodiam Castle

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.
North Yorkshire, England

Gordale Scar

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

Elie Chain Walk

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.
Highland, Scotland

CairnGorm Mountain Railway

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.