Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

This stone throne invites adventurers to observe breathtaking views of the Peak District.

The heroic tale of a remarkable pup who refused to leave her master's side, no matter what.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

This iconic Peak District ridge was once one of the busiest roads in medieval Britain.

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

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

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

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

This mysterious hilltop collection of Druid carvings isn't quite what it seems.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A thousand year old oak tree survives in Liverpool.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

This medieval castle is filled with an eccentric collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian artifacts to taxidermy to a mummified hand that was cut off during a duel.