This industrial gem was one of the earliest examples of a metal-framed building.

English Protestants once criticized this enormous private chapel for being too ornate.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

A collection of early 19th century trams set in a reconstructed period village.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

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

A mysterious medieval monument said to mark the final resting place of Robin Hood’s henchman.

This muddy wooded valley and the ancient structures it hides are said to be the favored haunt of the legendary Friar Tuck.

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Standing atop Wellington Hill is the world's tallest three-sided obelisk.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.

Exquisite carvings of leaves, Green Men, and the occasional dragon adorn a medieval chapter house.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.