This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.

This coin collecting cod is over 130 years old, and the United Kingdom's smallest listed structure.

At the height of alum production at this factory, human urine was a valued commodity.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

These precariously placed ruins harken back to a 13th-century castle.

A little-known castle set in a nature reserve.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

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

This petite cutlery factory sits on the foundations of a defunct gasworks.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

This local emblem is the oldest and largest dragon tree in the Canary Islands.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.