A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

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

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

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

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

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

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.