Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

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

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

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

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.