A sense of bewilderment encounters visitors when they happen upon this former railway bridge.

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

The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.

The historic villages and towns of Suffolk are filled with wonky wooden beam houses painted an unusual shade of pink. Unknown to many though, this sweet shade has a bloody history.

Standing atop Wellington Hill is the world's tallest three-sided obelisk.

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

A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.

Two beautiful Victorian-era parks replete with ornamental waterfalls and lakes.

Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.

This window celebrates the role of tea, coffee, cocoa, and cotton in creating the fortune of the man who commissioned it.

This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.

This ancient stone bridge dates back to the early Middle Ages.

The history of this famed tree ranges from an 18th-century highway robber, to the Scout Association.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

The first museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to this woodwind instrument.

A 13th-century fortified manor house that was once sieged during the English Civil War.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

An anti-tank graveyard in the English countryside.

This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.

These curious rocks located in the Lake District include several strange inscriptions of famous names.

Poet William Blake penned some of his most famous work during his brief stay at this beloved country cottage.

Obscene versions of this artist's work are the most popular.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.