Fifield, England
Giant Royal Heads
Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.
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Fifield, England
Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.
Oxford, England
An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.
Llanymynech, England
A small village in two different countries.
Gotham, England
The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.
Witcham, England
The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.
Haxey, England
One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.
Torcross, England
A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.
Lincoln, England
The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.
Sheffield, England
A fitting tribute to a beloved local boxing coach that's produced four world champions.
Camelford, England
A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.
London, England
Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.
Stoke Heath, England
An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.
Thetford, England
This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.
Kilgetty, Wales
Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.
Dundee, Scotland
A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.
Thetford, England
A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.
Ashwell, England
Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”
Liverpool, England
A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.
Hawarden, Wales
At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.
Bedale, England
The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.
Ballygalley, Northern Ireland
Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.
Folkestone, England
One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.
Swindon, England
England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.