This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Royal burial place of the kings of ancient Britain.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The much-beloved mascot of a local museum.

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

These carved, weathered stones once gave mail carriers and pub goers a leg up.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

A 12-foot-tall metal fisherman looks out over the promenade.

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

One of the oldest Augustinian houses, this church is reminiscent of the rich history of England.

This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.