Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

A picturesque garden with a surprising past.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

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

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.