The unusual stilted beacon is the town's only active lighthouse.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

A historic holy well hidden near a charming English park.

Britain's oldest and biggest hole in the ground.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.

This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

A picturesque garden with a surprising past.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

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

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

Where an 11th-century flying monk crash landed after attempting to take to the skies.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.