The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

Hundreds of huge, centuries-old horseshoes adorn the walls of this nontraditional 12th-century castle.

The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

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

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

All unmarked mute swans on the Thames are owned by the Queen per a tradition that began in the 12th century.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

Also known as Rye Castle, this 13th-century fortification later became a prison and held one of Rye's most famous criminals.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

The Last Home of an Executed King.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.