The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

A dark Victorian well house now plays host to mystical waters and pagan shrines.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

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

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

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

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

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.