Finstown, Scotland
Cuween Hill Cairn
Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.
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Finstown, Scotland
Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.
Dunmore, Scotland
A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.
Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
Milton, Scotland
This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.
Edinburgh, Scotland
One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.
Nottingham, England
A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.
Worksop, England
English Protestants once criticized this enormous private chapel for being too ornate.
Sheffield, England
One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.
Rutland, England
A locomotive that was captured as a prisoner of war is now recognized as a WWII memorial.
Warwick, England
A great example of the inventive canal bridges that were deliberately split down the middle.
Darlington, England
A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.
Middlesbrough, England
Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.
Ryde, England
The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.
Arkwright Town, England
When methane gas started seeping up from the ground, they picked up and moved the entire town.
London, England
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
Sheffield, England
The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.
Swindon, England
This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.
London, England
A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.
Cambridge, England
A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.
Bamford, England
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.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.