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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Contrary to its heavenly name, this tranquil oasis has a dark and tragic history buried with it (quite literally).

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

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

On a site with a long military history, a 1980s shelter.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.