Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

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

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

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.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

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

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

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

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

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

The largest known medieval map of the world.