Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

This amazing trail among the many waterfalls around Ingleton has been enchanting visitors since 1885.

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

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

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

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

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

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

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A student driver's nightmare.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.