It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

It is said a heartbroken man visited the gap every day to stare blankly out at the sea.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

A small village in two different countries.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

This strategically placed hill fort has served defensive forces from the Iron Age up until the 20th century.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.