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This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

A giant piece of cutlery designed to remind us about the origins of our food.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

A medieval relic whose great hall once hosted Mayflower pilgrims, one of Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives, and plenty of royal intrigue.

Some wattle-and-daub, a Moorish mural, a glacial erratic, and a Giant named Gilbert.

Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

These medieval tunnels provided water to the city above through centuries of civil war and plague.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.