An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

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

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

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

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

Final resting place of John Middleton "The Childe of Hale."