This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

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

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

The near loss of the stately fireplaces at this medieval castle spawned some of Britain's most crucial historic preservation laws.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

This landmark Victorian folly rewards visitors with spectacular views over the Peak District.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

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