This gravestone tells the tragic tale of its occupant's death.

This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.

This holy spring and it's well has been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

This Tudor cottage is adorned with many canary-clasping cats, which originally served as a reminder to a local clergyman of his pet's murderous ways.

These unassuming buildings in the tranquil churchyard of rural Warblington are in fact grave watchers’ huts.

This ancient causeway can flood daily, leaving Mersea Island as a true island for hours at a time, and cutting its 7,000 residents off from the mainland.

This miraculous well is said to heal the sick, grant wishes, and tell the future.

A former Victorian swimming pool is now a tranquil and secluded park.

The walls of this village church are decorated by two unique religious works of art.

These public toilets were used as a dead drop by pro-Soviet spies to trade British military secrets during the Cold War.

This longship was a gift to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the Anglo-Saxons arrival in England.

This public bathroom is guarded by a flyswatter-wielding army major.

Lurking among the classical architecture, rose gardens, and art of this historic country house—a crocodile in a bathtub.

This statue commemorates one of medieval England’s most courageous heroes.

This small village museum contains the schoolboy scratchings of William Wordsworth.

This towering monument is dedicated in memory of a most unusually named, yet heroic, horse.

Before firefighters, villagers relied on this simple hook to save their thatched cottages from a fiery doom.

Four hundred years ago, this turned-about message was carved into one of Winchester Cathedral's exterior walls.

Many of the cottages and houses of this tiny village are adorned with a local lord's collection of saintly statues.

This Great Dunmow pond was a breeding ground for medical leeches, as well as the testing ground for the world's first lifeboat.

The eccentricities of a former lord include painted pigeons of his manor house, a series of pointless plaques, and a folly built simply to peeve the public.

In the mid-1800s, the British military used this hilltop fort to train soldiers.

This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.

At this fountain, Pongo and Missis of "The Hundred and One Dalmatians," stopped to drink.