The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.

This massive chalk hill carving is one of England's most beloved giant horse geoglyphs.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

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

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.