A plinth outside a church displays sculptures by local artists.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

A renovated henge and stone circle just south of Stanton Harcourt village.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

A massive glacial deposit that includes a carved staircase to reach the top.

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

This abandoned Brutalist tower looming over the M6 Motorway once featured a restaurant.

Oliver Cromwell marched his army over this narrow bridge to victory at the Battle of Preston in 1648.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

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

The house in the middle of the motorway.

The longest cutting on the M62 contains some surprises—though it's best to leave the motorway to appreciate them.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

Home of the infamous Cauld Lad of Hylton and one of the inspirations behind "Alice" in Sunderland.

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.