Places bip Wants to Go

Explore the history of mining in this museum, or in a real mine from the 1920s.

This sculpture, residing in a quiet corner of a London park, honors the victims of 9/11.

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

Constructed during the 7th century this is one of the oldest largely intact Christian churches in England.

This crumbling coast and its teetering tower are literally filled with history, but they are also at great risk of becoming history themselves.

One of the oldest suspension bridges in the world blends in perfectly with a medieval castle.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

This restored 19th-century calender, a machine used in rubber manufacturing, commemorates the town's local industry.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.

This section of the Kennet and Avon Canal has been designated the same level of heritage protection as Stonehenge.

The longest staircase lock in Britain.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

The longest canal aqueduct in England was built without a plan to get water past the moving boats.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The spirit of an executioner is said to cause cars to roll uphill in this English forest.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.