The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

A trio of giant megalithic stones in the middle of a golf course.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

A brisk climb up this solitary peak leads to the origin story of a towering figure in Irish history.

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

"The Donut" was built as part of an expensive, ill-fated engineering endeavor.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

This strategically placed hill fort has served defensive forces from the Iron Age up until the 20th century.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.