Cambridge, England
Queens' College Moondial
A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.
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Cambridge, England
A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.
Busveal, England
The excellent acoustics of this natural amphitheater made it a popular preaching spot for the founder of the Methodist Church.
Buxton, England
Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.
London, England
An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.
Louth, England
A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.
London, England
A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.
Port Talbot, Wales
The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.
Cambridge, England
The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.
Hope Valley, England
There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.
Bourton-on-the-Water, England
A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.
Alnwick, England
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
Glasgow, Scotland
The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.
Coventry, England
This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.
London, England
A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.
Manningtree, England
This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.
Sheffield, England
A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.