Stirling, Scotland
The King's Knot
These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.
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Stirling, Scotland
These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.
Bamburgh, England
The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.
Minions, England
Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.
Tintagel, England
A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.
York, England
Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.
Bratton, England
A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.
Uley, England
You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.
Salisbury, England
The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.
Nairn, Scotland
The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.
Milton Keynes, England
Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.
Chipping Norton, England
This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
Penzance, England
Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.
Canterbury, England
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
Broadway, England
A petite castle folly in the English countryside.
Oxford, England
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
London, England
This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.
Faringdon, England
The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.
West Wycombe, England
Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.
Avebury, England
The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.
Hartfield, England
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
East Molesey, England
England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.
Alexandria, Scotland
Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.
Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
London, England
Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.