Oxton, England
Robin Hood's Hill
This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.
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Oxton, England
This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.
Hucknall, England
This imaginative sculpture is a memorial to this town's former mining industry.
Lincoln, England
This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.
Nottingham, England
A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.
Fakenham, England
The last gas works in England and Wales details how people once extracted the resource from coal.
Nottingham, England
The Birthplace of the Englishman who founded the A.C. Milan football club.
Nottingham, England
An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.
Nottingham, England
These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.
Moira, England
This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.
Birmingham, England
The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.
Heckington, England
The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.
Birmingham, England
An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.
Milbourne, England
A classic red phone box converted into an informal village library.
Dover, England
One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.
Southampton, England
This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.
Southampton, England
Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.
Deal, England
A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.
Avebury, England
The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.
Blaxhall, England
Blaxhall's burgeoning boulder can't help putting on a few extra stones.
King's Lynn, England
This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.
Folkestone, England
These 1,500-year-old remains were found in a mysterious Anglo-Saxon mass grave.
Capel Saint Andrew, England
The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."
Finglesham, England
A beautiful Kentish country intersection hosts a tasty little photo spot.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.