On the outside of the Mersey Tunnels, an Art Deco sculpture of an Egyptian Pharaoh wears goggles and racing gear.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

On a site with a long military history, a 1980s shelter.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

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

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

A retirement home for soldiers that can trace its history to the Elizabethan era and beyond.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

Known as the "Stairway to Heaven," this historic canal dates back to the 1700s.

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

This whimsical, unique clock has been entertaining shoppers for well over 20 years.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.