Andy McGrath heads to the home of palaeontology on Dorset's Jurassic Coast and braves the collapsing cliffs of Lyme Regis to bring back one of its many fossils. While in the county, he investigates UFO-infested hillforts, haunted castles, chalk giants and shares a song with the fairies at the Singing Barrows of Weymouth.

In London, Andy McGrath visits Britain's oldest shop and the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter, drinks coffee with a corpse at a Macabre Museum, uncovers a sacrificial altar in an ancient chalk mine, and discovers a 19th-century time machine hidden in an urban cemetery.