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Snowshill Manor exterior.

Snowshill, England

Snowshill Manor

The home of an eccentric Edwardian gentleman is packed to the rafters with handcrafted items collected over a lifetime.

Beaumont Palace marker.

Oxford, England

Beaumont Palace Marker

A hidden plaque is the only reminder of the lost palace where two storied English kings were born.

Pig’s Head in the Pottage Pot Gant

Braintree, England

The 'Gants' of Braintree

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

One of the museum's dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Birchington-on-Sea, England

Powell-Cotton Dioramas

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

The members banking.

Weybridge, England

Brooklands Racetrack Remains

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

The deer house.

Bishop Auckland, England

Auckland Castle Deer House

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

Centuries of secrets await behind the red door

Bristol, England

The Red Lodge Museum

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

Wallace and Gromit Statue

Preston, England

Wallace and Gromit Statue

Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.

Wallace Hartley's gravestone

Colne, England

Wallace Hartley's Gravestone

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

Passing children through the holes is said to cure their ailments.

Hampton Fields, England

Longstone of Minchinhampton

Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.

Abbotsbury Swanery

Weymouth, England

Abbotsbury Swannery

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

Arnside Bore

Arnside, England

Arnside Bore

This rare aquatic phenomenon is one of the more accessible tidal bores in Morecambe Bay.

The Roman ruins in the foreground with the backdrop of Lympne Castle.

Lympne, England

Portus Lemanis

The ruins of a Roman fort lie in the shadows of an imposing medieval castle.

Full view.
Permanently Closed

Manchester, England

'22 Bees'

This massive memorial commemorates those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.

Ford's Hospital from Greyfriars Lane.

Coventry, England

Ford's Hospital

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

Pedestrian Tunnel.

Jarrow, England

Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnels

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

Dove Cottage

Grasmere, England

Dove Cottage

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

King Aethelstan's Tomb

Malmesbury, England

King Aethelstan's Tomb

The last known resting place of the king who united England.

The Lanchester Diploma.

Durham, England

The Lanchester Diploma

The 2,000-year-old pieces of metal are an ancient soldier's military discharge papers.

The Grave of Tom Thumb

Tattershall, England

Grave of Tom Thumb

An engraved stone in a village church claims to be the grave of a minuscule folk legend.

A weird wartime target.

Linby, England

Linby Docks

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

Dual-time clock at the Bristol Exchange

Bristol, England

Corn Exchange Dual-Time Clock

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

Crich Stand, the War Memorial of the Sherwood Foresters.

Crich, England

Crich Stand

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

The Temple of Nodens, Lydney Park.

Gloucestershire, England

Lydney Camp

Home to the ancient Roman temple of a lesser-known Celtic god that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft.

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