Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

Hundreds of years ago, this lion-shaped door knocker could help a person accused of a crime find temporary safe haven in Durham Cathedral.

The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

The largest timber structure in Europe.

This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.