Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

This nondescript building was the birthplace of Morris cars.

The site of the notorious Great Train Robbery of £2.6 million, one of the biggest heists in English history.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

A 168-foot tower, part of the abandoned Chester Leadworks facility.

This memorial pays homage to the Royal Air Force squadron that breached two important dams during World War II.

The last surviving roundhouse in the United Kingdom also plays host to a popular annual beer and music festival.

The now-quiet remains of coastal artillery defenses that were used in both World Wars.

An iconic waterwheel in the Pennine Hills marks the location of one of Britain’s most profitable lead mines.

17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.

Peek inside restored planes at this off-the-beaten-path collection of aviation archaeology.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

In the middle of a barren moorland, the remnants of a lost British Space Age stand like a 20th-century Stonehenge.

The solitary cairn marks a mysterious death that's still controversial more than two decades later.

Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.

This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

This old Victorian bathhouse is fed by an ancient spring.

Inside this chapel, Victorian jailers took the separate system to new levels.

This five-star hotel was originally a swanky parking garage.

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.

This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.