A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

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

This police call box harkens back to an era of pre-radio communications, and has a rather unique feature.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.