A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

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

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.