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Greywell Tunnel over clear springs

Greywell, England

Greywell Tunnel

Built in the 18th century, and now the largest roost for hibernating bats in Britain.

St. Mary's Church

London, England

Benedict Arnold's Grave at St. Mary’s Battersea

A beautiful Georgian church alongside the Thames has a crypt in the basement, in which are buried the bodies of the infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold, his wife Peggy, and their daughter Sophia.

Brusher Mills Grave

Brockenhurst, England

Brusher Mills Grave

This local celebrity earned his fame by doing a job no one else dared.

The remains of Monk's Mill

Bath, England

The remains of Monk's Mill

This humble structure is one of Bath’s few surviving medieval relics

Bladud and pig

Bath, England

King Bladud statue

This statue that honors King Bladud dates from 1859 and, after being kept in storage for many years, was renovated and moved to the Parade Gardens in 2009. The statue of a pig was added at the same time

The Ladders to Heaven

Bath, England

The Ladders to Heaven

Legend has it that Bishop Oliver King dreamed of angels ascending to heaven and ordered the church's reconstruction in the late 1400s

Handprint Fountain

Bath, England

Fountain Handprints

These markers note British stars of both stage and screen.

Temple Ornament

Bath, England

Temple Ornament

This limestone Temple Ornament was created from the relics of St. Mary's Chapel

The Museum of East Asian Art, just off of the Circus.

Bath and North East Somerset, England

The Museum of East Asian Art

5,000 years of East and Southeast Asian art in the heart of Bath.

Henrietta Lacks Statue

Bristol, England

Henrietta Lacks Statue

A monument dedicated to the unrecognized Black "mother" of modern medicine.

The taxidermy of "Alfred," a Western Lowland gorilla who ( in life ) once  inhabited Bristol Zoo.

Bristol, England

Bristol Museum Natural History Collection

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

Replica of the Bristol Boxkite

Bristol City, England

Replica of the Bristol Boxkite

Originally made for a film, this replica plane hangs from the ceiling in the front hall of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

The Bristol Tapestry

Bristol City, England

The Bristol Tapestry

The Bristol Tapestry is a 22-meter artwork depicting 1,000 years of the city's history, created in the 1970s by over 90 local contributors

Stairs to Nowhere

Bristol, England

Stairs to Nowhere

These stairs, seemingly disappearing into a wall, once tempted some students into petty crime

The Tomarton Bronze Age skeleton

Bristol, England

Bristol Museum Archeology Collection

An array of ancient artifacts from Bronze Age Bristol and other civilizations are housed in this museum.

The empty plinth where Colston's statue once stood.

Bristol, England

Empty Plinth of the Colston Statue

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

Leonard Lane

Bristol City, England

Leonard Lane

Bristol’s narrowest street is a ‘Hidden Gem’ for stunning street art

Victoria Font

Bristol, England

Victoria Font

Designed to celebrate the queen's 40th birthday.

The stone circles at Stanton Drew.

Bristol, England

Stanton Drew Stone Circles

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

Vale Street.

Bristol, England

Vale Street

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

The Nails outside Bristol's Corn Exchange.

Bristol, England

The Nails

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

Dual-time clock at the Bristol Exchange

Bristol, England

Corn Exchange Dual-Time Clock

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

The Guild of Ancient Merchant Taylors

Bristol, England

The Guild of Ancient Merchant Taylors

An ornate doorway leads to the former site of one of the city's oldest society of merchants.

Edward Everard's Printing Works

Bristol, England

Edward Everard's Printing Works

This Grade II Listed Building with an Art Nouveau façade once contained a unique print shop.

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