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A poignant memorial to the 106 coal miners killed in three major accidents in Derbyshire.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

A mysterious medieval monument said to mark the final resting place of Robin Hood’s henchman.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

This imaginative sculpture is a memorial to this town's former mining industry.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

A gardener saved a beloved clock face from destruction by building it into a wall outside his house.

The heroic tale of a remarkable pup who refused to leave her master's side, no matter what.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.

A creepy tree with a local legend that inspired a nearby theme park ride.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

This industrial gem was one of the earliest examples of a metal-framed building.