An unassuming tribute to engineer William Bald and the workers who built one of Europe's most scenic coastal roads.

A tribute to a vessel involved in the notorious Larne gun-running.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

A historic Georgian building and warm springs.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

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

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

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

These crude contraptions were used to aid in the mining of lead, silver and gold.