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Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

This rare aquatic phenomenon is one of the more accessible tidal bores in Morecambe Bay.

This unusual sculpture is sometimes partially, sometimes fully, submerged.

A 2,000-ton rock resting in a state of a delicate balance.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

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

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

This magical grotto is adorned with a complex pattern of native seashells, minerals, and fragments of colored glass.

An ingenious way to immortalize the inventor of universal time.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

This stone obelisk is a relic of the 17th-century Swedish mile markers.

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

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

The oldest known metal-mining site in England dates back to the Bronze Age.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Standing atop Wellington Hill is the world's tallest three-sided obelisk.

This Roman quarry once held secret masses and smuggler's contraband and is now home to rare species of bats.