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

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

The world's oldest model village.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

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

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.