This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Flaming barrels of tar race through these village streets on Bonfire Night, a tradition that dates back centuries.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

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

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.