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In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

This memorial pays homage to the Royal Air Force squadron that breached two important dams during World War II.

Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

The museum houses one of the world's largest shoe collections, boasting over 12,000 pairs.

The house in the middle of the motorway.

The first place where the scientific innovation known as radar was first demonstrated in Britain.

The near loss of the stately fireplaces at this medieval castle spawned some of Britain's most crucial historic preservation laws.

This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.

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.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

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

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.