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.
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London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.
Les Baux-de-Provence, France
Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Whipsnade, England
This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.
Ware, England
Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.
England
A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.
Heckington, England
The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.
Ilkeston, England
This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
Nottingham, England
There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.
Grantham, England
One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.
Peterborough, England
Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.
Stilton, England
Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Stoney Stanton, England
The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.
Grantham, England
Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.
Peterborough, England
The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Rushton, England
An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.
Nottingham, England
This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."
Nettleham, England
An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.
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.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."