Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

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

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

The world's oldest model village.

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

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

This ancient bridge made of stone slabs is said to be reserved for the devil to sunbathe.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.