A long-abandoned relic of World War II.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

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