This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

These 1,500-year-old remains were found in a mysterious Anglo-Saxon mass grave.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to the legendary King Alfred the Great.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

These ruins of Francis Bacon's once-magnificent manor are hidden in the English countryside.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.

This English medieval castle is where King John died of dysentery.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.