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A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

Constructed from recycled wrought iron railroad tracks, it's been described as the most beautiful seaside pier in England.

The ruins of a once-grand mansion in Northern Ireland are now thought to be haunted.

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

It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

Scotland still bears an enormous scar of its Roman past.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.