This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

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

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

WWII artifacts, including the building itself.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St. John's Precinct and Market.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."