A real Hawker Hunter jet in the middle of Basingstoke.

From amidst her whirling waves, this mermaid sees all who pass through St. Swithun’s Church. If local legends are to be believed, she serves as a warning.

It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

According to the Soldiers Account Book, the village of Odiham is home to Thomas Atkins, whose name became shorthand for all British soldiers.

A rare survivor from the age of plagues.

This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

Austrian and Germans who died on British soil during World War I and II are buried here.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

This early Norman castle was the first historical monument protected by an act of Parliament.

The remains of the man who founded Pennsylvania lie in an unassuming grave in the English countryside.

These shopping center benches are actually a modern art installation.

This seemingly normal pathway actually forms a giant fingerprint.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.