This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

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

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

This unique collection of lawnmowers includes vintage blueprints and automatic robot mowers.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

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.