Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.
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Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Firbank, England
The abandoned railway bridge stands hidden in the farmland of rural Cumbria.
Skipton, England
This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.
Thirsk, England
England's largest white horse isn't even white.
Skipton, England
Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.
Ely, England
A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
Lincoln, England
Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.
Lincoln, England
The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
Long before wi-fi, this public seat provided the wonder of being online while outdoors.
Rhayader, Wales
A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.
Tongwynlais, Wales
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.
London, England
A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.
London, England
A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.
London, England
A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.
London, England
This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
London, England
The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
London, England
19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.
Portsmouth, England
A picturesque garden with a surprising past.
Somerset, England
This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.
Somerset, England
The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.