In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

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

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

This tower was constructed to commemorate the man who helped bring true democracy to the United Kingdom.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

This unique creation was used to house and wash sheep prior to shearing.

This mysterious hilltop collection of Druid carvings isn't quite what it seems.

The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.