At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

This giant steel bear is a tribute to naturalist John Muir.

Inside this station, the 1945 film "Brief Encounter" is played on a loop daily.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

In 1990, this 37-foot red steel bottle sailed from New York to England.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

A double cantilever system bridge that was designed to prevent flood damage.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

Cut into a sheer cliff face, these stairs are the only way to reach a secluded Scottish harbor.

This 900-foot structure with 20 arches crossing a Scottish river was built in the late 19th century.

An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

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

Austrian and Germans who died on British soil during World War I and II are buried here.

One of the tallest maypoles remaining in England in one of its smaller villages.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.