One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

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

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to the legendary King Alfred the Great.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

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

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.