The patch of land below the memorial was gifted by the British to the United States.

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

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

The tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom.

Site of the golf match between James Bond and Goldfinger.

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

Following years of secrecy, the hidden history of a World War II site is being brought to light.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

Britain's answer to the NSA is based out of this deliciously-named circular headquarters.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.

A locomotive that was captured as a prisoner of war is now recognized as a WWII memorial.