Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

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

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

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

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

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

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Music boxes like you've never imagined.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

The first German gnome who popularized the garden decoration.

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

The home of an eccentric Edwardian gentleman is packed to the rafters with handcrafted items collected over a lifetime.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

One of the tallest maypoles remaining in England in one of its smaller villages.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

A great example of the inventive canal bridges that were deliberately split down the middle.