Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

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

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.