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The Banqueting Room

Brighton, England

The Royal Pavilion

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Brighton Beach Flint Sculpture Garden

Brighton, England

Brighton Beach Flint Grotto

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

Madeira Lift

Brighton, England

Madeira Lift

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

A view of Sandgate castle

Sandgate, England

Sandgate Castle

This Tudor-era castle was once part of King Henry VIII's plan to protect England from invasion.

The house where H.G. Wells lived.

Sandgate, England

House of H.G. Wells

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

Bronze Age Boat

Dover, England

Bronze Age Boat

One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.

Coldrum Long Barrow

West Malling, England

Coldrum Long Barrow

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

The Quintain on Offham Green.

Offham, England

Offham Quintain

Horsemen once used this tilting post during jousting practice.

Rochester Castle

Rochester, England

Rochester Castle

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.

Grain Tower.

Medway, England

Grain Tower Battery

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

Kit's Coty with backdrop of storm clouds gathering.

Blue Bell Hill, England

Kit's Coty House

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

The Spirit of Enterprise

Haverhill, England

The Spirit of Enterprise

A large piece of modern art makes this roundabout the only one in the world with its own laser.

Ancient round barrow in an unlikely spot.

Cambridge, England

Fourwentways Bronze Age Cemetery

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

The vaulted ceiling.

Ely, England

Octagon Tower

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

Sluice at night.

Ely, England

Sluice

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

Harley Davidson Monument

Littleport, England

Harley Davidson Monument

An unlikely connection between a little English town and the most famous brand of American motorcycles.

Gallopers.

Thursford, England

Thursford Collection

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

The Denver Sluice

Denver, England

The Denver Sluice Complex

This little-known hero has been protecting "The Fens" for close to 400 years, and now from its most powerful challenger yet: climate change.

Aerial view of "The Donut."

Spalding, England

The Outer Trial Bank

"The Donut" was built as part of an expensive, ill-fated engineering endeavor.

The wreck.

Hunstanton, England

Wreck of the Steam Trawler Sheraton

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

'Well Hung Lover.'

Bristol, England

'Well Hung Lover'

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

Lollipop Be-Bop.

Bristol, England

Lollipop Be-Bop

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

'Ruined'

St Paul's, England

'Ruined'

A unique sculpture cemetery dedicated to the region's defunct businesses.

Replica of the Matthew

Bristol, England

Replica of the Matthew

An authentic, seaworthy replica of the ship that sailed to Newfoundland in 1497.

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