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The Hackpen White Horse, sporting a cartoonish eye.

Swindon, England

Hackpen White Horse

England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.

Grade I listed Sundial

Bristol, England

Blaise Hamlet

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

Superlambanana

Liverpool, England

Superlambanana

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

West Pier

Brighton, England

West Pier

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

King Arthur's Hall

Tintagel, England

King Arthur's Hall

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

"All the people that come and go..."

Liverpool, England

Penny Lane

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, England

The Great Cloister and Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

Originally brightly illustrated, the map is now darkened with age.

Hereford, England

Hereford Mappa Mundi

The largest known medieval map of the world.

The Barbican Conservatory's Arid House.

London, England

Barbican Conservatory

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

How would you have positioned this statue?

London, England

'The Naked Ladies'

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

Seven Sisters Cliffs

East Sussex, England

Seven Sisters Cliffs

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

Uffington White Horse.

Faringdon, England

Uffington White Horse

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

The Roald Dahl Museum

Great Missenden, England

The Roald Dahl Museum

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

Avebury

Avebury, England

Avebury

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Skull and bones in the crypt

Hythe, England

St. Leonard's Church Basement Ossuary

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Hawkstone Park

Weston, England

Hawkstone Park

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

Cheddar gorge and caves.

Cheddar, England

The Cheddar Man and Cannibals Museum

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Historic Reading Room

Manchester, England

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Looks can be deceiving.

Manchester, England

The Washhouse

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Bee

Manchester, England

The Manchester Bee

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Rear garden behind the post office

Tintagel, England

Tintagel Post Office

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

Ianto's Shrine

Cardiff, Wales

Ianto's Shrine

An impromptu shrine appeared shortly after beloved "Torchwood" character Ianto Jones was killed off the show.

The train station.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Bryn Celli Ddu

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales

Bryn Celli Ddu

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

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