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Hazardous material teams on Gruinard Island. (Creative Commons)

Mungasdale, Scotland

Gruinard Island

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

Burgh Island, the hotel, and the sea tractor.

Kingsbridge, England

Burgh Island

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

Fovant Badges

Fovant, England

Fovant Badges

Soldiers carved these regimental badges into the chalk hills in remembrance of those who died in World War I.

Longleat Maze and a viewing bridge

Warminster, England

Longleat Hedge Maze

The longest hedge maze in the world.

People collecting fossils in Lyme Regis at the fossil festival.

Lyme Regis, England

The Glowing Clams of Great Britain

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

An overgrown sunken road/green way in Symondsbury, Dorset.

North Chideock, England

Holloways of Dorset

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift.

Bournemouth, England

Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

Old Harry Rocks

Swanage, England

Old Harry Rocks

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

The Scout Stone

Dorset, England

The Scout Stone

This commemorative stone was erected near the first Scout campsite.

Details of the lamp.

Durham, England

South Bailey Sewer Lamp

These lamps were created to expel sewer gases after an event known as The Great Stink.

The lowest of the low.

Peterborough, England

Holme Fen Posts

Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.

Many competitors opt to race in fancy dress. (Press)

Stilton, England

Stilton Cheese Rolling Championship

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

The famous birching scene.

Boston, England

Misericords of Boston Stump

These carved medieval "mercy seats" are among the finest in the world.

Gallopers.

Thursford, England

Thursford Collection

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

The large windows at the end of the church.

England

The Ruins of St. Mary's Church

In the quiet village of Fulmodeston, the ruins of a medieval church remain hidden among vines and foliage.

The Warren Lodge.

Thetford, England

Thetford Warren Lodge

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

Pig’s Head in the Pottage Pot Gant

Braintree, England

The 'Gants' of Braintree

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

Tilbury Fort drawbridges.

Tilbury, England

Tilbury Fort

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

Pocahontas statue.

Gravesend, England

The Resting Place of Pocahontas

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

The Thames Forts in 2013

England

Maunsell Army Sea Forts

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Chapel of St. Peter on the Wall

Bradwell-on-Sea, England

Chapel of St. Peter on the Wall

Constructed during the 7th century this is one of the oldest largely intact Christian churches in England.

A House for Essex

Manningtree, England

A House for Essex

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

The Bures Dragon.

Bures, England

Bures Dragon

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

Tattingstone Wonder.

Tattingstone, England

Tattingstone Wonder

An 18th-century estate owner thought these cottages were an eyesore, so he artfully disguised them as a church.

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