The ruins of an ancient mansion sits in front of and underneath a contemporary art gallery.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

A serene public space nestled within the remains of Glasgow’s Victorian maternity hospital

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

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

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

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

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

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.