"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

A relic of medieval punishment marks the center of this quintessential English village.

You can climb to the top of the column built to honor the "father of British inland navigation."

Local legend says this unusual chimney is actually a broken-hearted man's tomb.

This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Model aircraft soar over 360-degree views of the countryside at the start of England's oldest road.

This windmill is believed to be the oldest in the British Isles.

A line of iron bollards with colorful, handknitted cozies fitted over them.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

This small, round building is the entrance to a bomb shelter built in anticipation of World War II.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Commemorating the first recorded car journey in the United Kingdom, a 56-mile trip that defied the speed limit the whole way.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

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

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

Cycle, walk, or run up and down on an old historic railway path.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This sculpture, residing in a quiet corner of a London park, honors the victims of 9/11.