Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

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

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.