Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

Also known as Rye Castle, this 13th-century fortification later became a prison and held one of Rye's most famous criminals.

Cycle the solar system—from the sun to Pluto—right here on earth.

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

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

This old Victorian bathhouse is fed by an ancient spring.

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

This rare aquatic phenomenon is one of the more accessible tidal bores in Morecambe Bay.

Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.

Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

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

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.

One man's attempt to stay one step ahead of the church.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.