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The Tures

Stow-on-the-Wold, England

The Tures

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.

Partial remains  of Stanton shelter

Matlock, England

Bailey's Tump

A pile of earth left over from a water supply project was converted into an anti-aircraft installation during World War II.

Death and the Mother.

Copenhagen, Denmark

‘Death and the Mother’

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

The Souvenir, now the Graveyard of Lost Species

Southend-on-Sea, England

Graveyard of Lost Species

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

Panel of shells

Margate, England

Margate Shell Grotto

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

A floating Valentine tank, note the turret in the middle of the canvas

Dorset, England

Valentine Tank Wrecks

The site of a dress rehearsal for D-Day that ended in disaster.

Temple 2000

Manchester, England

Temple 2000

A small statue shaped like the grill of a Rolls-Royce marks the suburban location where the company’s first automobiles were manufactured.

View of part of the Village

Beaconsfield, England

Bekonscot Model Village

The world's oldest model village.

Mysterious skeleton carving in the cave.

Chislehurst, England

Chislehurst Caves

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 Cerne Abbas Giant

Cerne Abbas, England

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Traffic Light Tree

London, England

Traffic Light Tree

A student driver's nightmare.

Headington Shark

Oxford, England

The Headington Shark

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Giant's Causeway

Bushmills, Northern Ireland

Giant’s Causeway

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Beverley Messenger Rabbit

Beverley, England

Beverley Messenger Rabbit

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?

The House of Automata

Forres, Scotland

The House of Automata

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Principality of Sealand

Suffolk, England

Principality of Sealand

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

The Island, Newquay

Newquay, England

The Island, Newquay

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Winston Churchill Ave. runs across the Gibraltar Airport runway.

Gibraltar

Gibraltar Airport

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

The cave.

Lendalfoot, Scotland

Sawney Bean's Cave

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

Originally brightly illustrated, the map is now darkened with age.

Hereford, England

Hereford Mappa Mundi

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Tombstone of Wild Peter at St. Mary's Church.

Northchurch, England

Grave of Peter, the Wild Boy of Hanover

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

Sir Richard Burton's Tent-Tomb

London, England

Sir Richard Burton's Tent-Tomb

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Many competitors opt to race in fancy dress. (Press)

Stilton, England

Stilton Cheese Rolling Championship

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre.

London, England

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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