An iconic British fixture in an unconventional color.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

An Iron Age hillfort rooted in Arthurian legend was made famous by musician Peter Gabriel.

This overgrown Victorian chapel made of corrugated metal looks utterly out of place.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

Victorian-era cemetery full of interesting local history among the graves.

Alongside its 16th- and 17th-century architecture and interiors, this mansion houses an Ancient Roman ring that some believe may have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien.

A real Hawker Hunter jet in the middle of Basingstoke.

One of the oldest cathedrals in the U.K. houses a priceless early manuscript.

A remembrance of the local Scottish victims of the Lockerbie Bombing Incident in the now-restored neighborhood.

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

The final resting place of a once-unsung hero of paleontology.

A statue for a zoo that was never built.

Art under your feet honors the history of a working-class London neighborhood.

A tribute to an 18th-century British surveyor.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

New York's transit system peddles terrible food in limited windows—this restaurant is a rare exception.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.