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

Parts of this former military training ground may have inspired parts of J.R.R. Tolkien's famous fantasy series.

A 15th-century house single-handedly disassembled then reassembled bit by bit 100 miles away.

The remnants of a strange stilted building on rails can still be seen at low tide.

The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.

A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.

This industrial gem was one of the earliest examples of a metal-framed building.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

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

This chimney is the oldest free standing industrial chimney in Britain.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

This little-known hero has been protecting "The Fens" for close to 400 years, and now from its most powerful challenger yet: climate change.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.