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A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

World's largest working waterwheel has been around for over 150 years.

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

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