The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

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

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.