An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

The historic site where Queen Elizabeth I once gave a searing speech.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

All that remains of the medieval palace of the famous "Black Prince."

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

This reconstructed ancient fort was home to one of the few horse training rings in the Roman Empire.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

Where the rules of that most quintessentially English game were first devised by an eccentric inventor.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

A great example of the inventive canal bridges that were deliberately split down the middle.

Known as the "Stairway to Heaven," this historic canal dates back to the 1700s.

A retirement home for soldiers that can trace its history to the Elizabethan era and beyond.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

The longest canal aqueduct in England was built without a plan to get water past the moving boats.

One of the tallest maypoles remaining in England in one of its smaller villages.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

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