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

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

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

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

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

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

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.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.