Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.