This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

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

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

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

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

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.