Every fifth of November, effigies of Guy Fawkes are thrown onto bonfires across Great Britain. But this Guy has managed to survive his fiery fate for almost 300 years.

A small and tranquil hidden garden in commemoration of one of the great Victorian plant collectors.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

The door of St. Lawrence’s Church features small scars from a battle that took place nearly 400 years ago.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

The village silk mill weaving Oscar-winning ribbons.

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.

Before firefighters, villagers relied on this simple hook to save their thatched cottages from a fiery doom.

Once the site of medieval pilgrimage for its healing powers, this well was lost and later rediscovered.

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.

Lurking among the classical architecture, rose gardens, and art of this historic country house—a crocodile in a bathtub.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

This gravestone and its inscription inspired a movement that has spanned generations and saved countless lives.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

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

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

Discovered on a shipwreck after more than 400 years, this Renaissance ratter tells a very waggly tale.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

A monument at the site of a decisive battle in the First English Civil War.