This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

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

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

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

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

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.