This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

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

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

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

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

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

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

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.