The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

Explore Hull's historic Old Town by following the sea creatures scattered throughout its charmingly cobbled streets.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

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

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.