Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

Collapsed television tower finds new life as a control tower for boat races.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.