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Evidence of a bullet that nearly killed King Charles I—or is it?

This water-powered cliffside railway is one of the steepest funiculars in the world.

A wooden statue of a mermaid commemorates one fisherman's generosity.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.

This rocky outcrop served as a quarry for some of the bluestones that sit at the center of Stonehenge.

Since the Middle Ages, this stone has been used as a place to bless fishing boats moored at the nearby landing stage.

Commemorating the first recorded car journey in the United Kingdom, a 56-mile trip that defied the speed limit the whole way.

A rare survivor from the age of plagues.

Death hangs in the air here, where a 17th-century gibbet has been erected on a Neolithic tomb.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

This may be the smallest length of railway in the United Kingdom.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

The history of this famed tree ranges from an 18th-century highway robber, to the Scout Association.

This commemorative stone was erected near the first Scout campsite.