This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

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

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

This sculpture pays homage to Shakespeare and his reference to a Manningtree tradition.

This octagonal cottage is the smallest and the oldest council house in the United Kingdom.

Centuries later, the victims of Great Britain's greatest hysteria are finally being remembered.

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.