Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

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

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

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

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.