An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

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

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.