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The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

London, England

The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

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

Saint-Paul de Mausole

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France

Saint-Paul de Mausole

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Carrières de Lumières

Les Baux-de-Provence, France

Carrières de Lumières

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

Gravensteen

Ghent, Belgium

Gravensteen

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The lion seen from Gallows Hill.

Whipsnade, England

Whipsnade White Lion

This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.

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Ware, England

Scott's Grotto

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

Devil's Bridge on Spooky Lane

England

Devil's Bridge on Spooky Lane

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

Heckington Windmill

Heckington, England

Heckington 8-Sail Windmill

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.

Scala Cinema.

Ilkeston, England

Scala Cinema

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

Ornamental Pond

Nottingham, England

The Arboretum

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

Brick supports hold the crumbly cave up.

Nottingham, England

Bell Inn Caves

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

Grantham, England

The Francis Trigge Chained Library

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

The lowest of the low.

Peterborough, England

Holme Fen Posts

Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.

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

Stilton, England

Stilton Cheese Rolling Championship

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

Stoney Cove at the UK National Dive Centre

Stoney Stanton, England

Stoney Cove at the UK National Dive Centre

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

View of the house with the apple tree in the foreground.

Grantham, England

Woolsthorpe Manor

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

Aerial view of Lyveden New Bield.

Peterborough, England

Lyveden New Bield

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

The crypt is full of skulls and other skeletal remains.

Rothwell, England

Rothwell Bone Crypt

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

Rushton Triangular Lodge

Rushton, England

Rushton Triangular Lodge

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

Inside the engine room.

Nottingham, England

Papplewick Pumping Station

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

Underground tunnels allowed servants access to the whole house
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Nettleham, England

Nettleham Hall

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.

Smoking the Fool, the prelude to the contest.

Haxey, England

The Haxey Hood

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

Puzzlewood

Coleford, England

Puzzlewood

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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