Places Balto1925 Wants to Go

Following years of secrecy, the hidden history of a World War II site is being brought to light.

A section of a historic wooden trestle viaduct is preserved next to the railway line it once carried.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The remnants of this unusual bridge await an uncertain fate.

Cycle the solar system—from the sun to Pluto—right here on earth.

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

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.

A locomotive that was captured as a prisoner of war is now recognized as a WWII memorial.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

The worst flood disaster in Welsh history might have been a lot worse if it had not happened on movie night.

This sculpture commemorates Edinburgh's sister city and their respective celebrity dogs.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

A beloved upside-down beacon off the coast of Northern Ireland.

These abandoned coal mine towers near Sherwood Forest might soon boast the U.K.’s longest zip-line.