A 12th-century manor thick with Tudor scandal and ghost stories

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

This iconic Tudor home-turned-museum offers a unique glimpse into the everyday life of a prosperous family during the early modern period.

Chester Cathedral is home to a unique painting crafted on a canvas of cobwebs.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

A 13th-century fortified manor house that was once sieged during the English Civil War.

The world’s oldest boat lift is also known in the United Kingdom as the "Cathedral of the Canals" and one of the "Seven Wonders of the Waterways."

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

This five-story sentinel is the sole surviving semaphore tower in Britain.

Cascading waterfalls mark the gateway to the ancient burial place of Clan Macnab.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

One of the oldest and most majestic living trees in Britain, thought to be over 1,500 years old.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

These medieval carvings bear scars left by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War.