This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

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

Sidney Scurvy, the interactive computer sailor, takes you on a journey to discover the everyday lives of Cook and his men.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

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

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

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

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

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.