This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

The church is gone, but the graves and legends remain.

A replica of one of the most complete mammoth skeletons discovered in England.

A 13th-century fortified manor house that was once sieged during the English Civil War.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A giant gleaming memorial named for a coal miner who gave his life to the pits.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

Austrian and Germans who died on British soil during World War I and II are buried here.

This whimsical, unique clock has been entertaining shoppers for well over 20 years.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

This castle resides in a valley known for immense bloodshed during the Middle Ages.

These wooden pipes were crucial to providing water to Medieval Edinburgh.

These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.

An artistic interpretation of the history of a Scottish park, combining poetry with anthropomorphic animals.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.