A creepy tree with a local legend that inspired a nearby theme park ride.

A medieval relic whose great hall once hosted Mayflower pilgrims, one of Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives, and plenty of royal intrigue.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

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

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

When methane gas started seeping up from the ground, they picked up and moved the entire town.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

This Victorian gate contains cryptic inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.

A preserved 18th century steel factory.

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

This house was home to a succession of park keepers for more than 90 years, but in all that time, it never had a toilet.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.