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What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

This long-distance walking route follows the Prime Meridian line as it passes through England.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

These skilfully executed, poignant works of art dot a verdant Scottish dell.

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

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.