The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.