This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

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

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

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

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

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.

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

A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

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

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

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

An abandoned canal route lies hidden under the streets of Manchester.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

The oldest working Brewery in Britain.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.