Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

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

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

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

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

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

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

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

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.