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

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

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

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

Pyramid shaped monument with a tall tale attached.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

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

In England, a barn-turned-wedding venue dates back to the 13th century.

These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.

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

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

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

A headstone notes where the most famous of Robin Hood's legendary Merry Men is reportedly buried.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

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

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

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

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.