This Roman quarry once held secret masses and smuggler's contraband and is now home to rare species of bats.

A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

One could not be blamed for literally walking all over this supposed landmark.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

This public pool is one of the last remaining lidos of the countless built in the 1930's as public works projects in the United Kingdom.

World's largest working waterwheel has been around for over 150 years.

These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

A medieval relic whose great hall once hosted Mayflower pilgrims, one of Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives, and plenty of royal intrigue.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.