A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The oldest candy store in the world has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

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

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

Wonderfully preserved Victorian factory, complete with a preserved steam powered engine house.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.