North Yorkshire, England
Tennants Auction House
This remarkable building has a lot to offer, even if you're not placing a bid.
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North Yorkshire, England
This remarkable building has a lot to offer, even if you're not placing a bid.
Lancaster, England
A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.
Lancashire, England
This antique shop and tea room reside inside a twice defunct church that was moved stone by stone to its current location.
London, England
19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.
London, England
This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.
London, England
Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.
Whitehaven, England
The final resting place of George Washington's Grandma.
Willaston, England
This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?
Scarborough, England
80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.
England
No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.
Rhayader, Wales
A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.
Lambholm, Scotland
This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.
Llandudno, Wales
The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.
Wheatley, England
Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.
Isle of Barra, Scotland
This beach runway is off limits during high tide.
Manchester, England
Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.
Oxford, England
Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.