The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

This painted wooden sculpture depicts the characters of a popular Devon folk song.

This ancient stone bridge dates back to the early Middle Ages.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

A 16th-century artillery fort built to protect England against European invasion.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

A holy well believed to have healing powers.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Chester Cathedral is home to a unique painting crafted on a canvas of cobwebs.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.