This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

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

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

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

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

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

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.