A rare example of this century-old British tank stands near the center of town in Ashford.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

This memorial pays homage to the Royal Air Force squadron that breached two important dams during World War II.

In the middle of a barren moorland, the remnants of a lost British Space Age stand like a 20th-century Stonehenge.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This aircraft museum is home to one of just three Halifax bombers in the world.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Britain's answer to the NSA is based out of this deliciously-named circular headquarters.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

A circle stone within a stone circle.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

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

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.