This tall stone wall with no door and ill-matched windows was built centuries ago, and used as a shelter for domesticated pigeons.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

This heavily worn bas-relief was once an honored fertility symbol.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

According to legend, a noble knight and a terrible dragon lie beneath this storied hill.

The famous Alice Liddell designed this memorial after losing her sons in World War I.

This figure was cut into the hillside in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

This early Norman castle was the first historical monument protected by an act of Parliament.

The eternal resting place of the last highwayman hanged in England.

Home to one of the tallest church spires in Europe, this historic church once played host to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.