The front of this 17th-century cottage also contains a large, stone face.

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

English Protestants once criticized this enormous private chapel for being too ornate.

The charming collection illustrates life in Lincolnshire in the 18th through 20th centuries.

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

Some of the earliest leaders of the Moravian congregation are buried here.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.