The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

The remains of a historic kiln once used to produce the famous Rockingham porcelain.

The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.

You will not be able to miss this building.

A unique 1980s designed church sits uncomfortably in its traditional Victorian churchyard.

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

One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.

This magnificent mural was created with over 30,000 colored bricks.

This old Victorian bathhouse is fed by an ancient spring.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

After the Moriscos, the descendents of the former Muslim population, were expelled from Spain this empty village was re-populated by families of sausage makers from the island of Mallorca.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

The legendary bathing site of a Moorish queen is actually part of a Roman fish farm.

Learn how dolls are made in this fascinating museum inside a 19th-century mansion.

This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

English Protestants once criticized this enormous private chapel for being too ornate.

In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

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

The final resting place of hundreds of Polish airmen who died fighting the Nazis in Britain.

Once the largest factory complex in all of Europe, this converted shopping center celebrates its industrial past in a big way.