Colonial Williamsburg was home to one of the earliest institutions in North America dedicated to educating Black children.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

This imaginative sculpture is a memorial to this town's former mining industry.

Lord Byron's embalmed body lies within this medieval church.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.