One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

Locals spent years successfully fighting to save this beloved Brutalist behemoth from demolition.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

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

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.