This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

These medieval tunnels provided water to the city above through centuries of civil war and plague.

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

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

In a boatyard near Aberdyfi is a nautically inspired work of art.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

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

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

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

The once-a-day siren is a reminder of the days before time was standardized.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

A poignant memorial to the 106 coal miners killed in three major accidents in Derbyshire.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.