The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

According to legend, a noble knight and a terrible dragon lie beneath this storied hill.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

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

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

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

The world's oldest model village.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.