A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

This building was once a town hall, a fire station, a prison, a dairy market, and the target for two marksmen.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

The final resting place of a celebrated First Nations man who traveled through England with a snake oil salesman.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

This sculpture honors a long-beloved English comic strip in the main character's hometown.

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

Take afternoon tea in a 17th-century almshouse.