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

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

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

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

An octagonal folly tower overlooking the sea.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

Also known as Rye Castle, this 13th-century fortification later became a prison and held one of Rye's most famous criminals.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.