These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.

A stone obelisk towering over the surrounding countrysides beckons hikers across the rolling moors.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

The tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

This quirky shop on a former farm is full of weird and wonderful oddities and antiques.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

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.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.