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

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

The world's oldest model village.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

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

England's most notorious suicide spot.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.