80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

Derelict chemical plant on the North Sea is a beautiful industrial ruin.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

This crumbling coast and its teetering tower are literally filled with history, but they are also at great risk of becoming history themselves.

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

The medley of artwork tells the history of this Scottish town.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.

Britain's oldest miniature railway.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

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