This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.

This magnificent mural was created with over 30,000 colored bricks.

This old Victorian bathhouse is fed by an ancient spring.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

The legendary bathing site of a Moorish queen is actually part of a Roman fish farm.

Learn how dolls are made in this fascinating museum inside a 19th-century mansion.

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

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

English Protestants once criticized this enormous private chapel for being too ornate.

In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The final resting place of hundreds of Polish airmen who died fighting the Nazis in Britain.

Once the largest factory complex in all of Europe, this converted shopping center celebrates its industrial past in a big way.

A 13th-century inn where the ill-fated King Charles I spent his last night of freedom.

A memorial to American oil drillers who volunteered to travel secretly to England in 1943 and work in the U.K.'s only oil field.

The undercroft is a spectacular example of medieval Cistercian architecture.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.