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Broad Town White Horse

Broad Town, England

Broad Town White Horse

A chalk horse cut into an English hillside in the 19th century.

Marine steam engine display.

Gloucester, England

Gloucester Waterways Museum

This fantastic museum honors Gloucester waterway heritage.

Colman's temple as it is today with original public toilet building on the right.

South Shields, England

Colman's Seafood Temple

Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.

Weaving Shuttle Sculpture

Nelson, England

Weaving Shuttle Sculpture

This giant weaving shuttle celebrates Lancashire's importance during the Industrial Revolution.

Restored furnace top allows visitors to look down into the structure.

Moira, England

Moira Furnace

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

Tinside Lido

Plymouth, England

Tinside Lido

A 1930s Art Deco swimming pool with a design inspired by grand ocean liners.

Some names were clear as day, Eddie Meyer engraved the date, name and location

Southampton, England

The D-Day Wall

This little-known wall in Southampton stands as one of the most unique and personal monuments to D-Day.

Bevin Boys Memorial.

Burton-on-Trent, England

Bevin Boys Memorial

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

Another angle

Windsor, England

The JFK Memorial at Runnymede

The patch of land below the memorial was gifted by the British to the United States.

RAF Tempsford Memorial Barn

Everton, England

RAF Tempsford Memorial Barn

Set amid the remains of a secret WWII airfield, this barn was preserved as a memorial to Allied agents who parachuted into Europe.

Green Moor Village Stocks

Wortley, England

Green Moor Village Stocks

In a quiet hamlet above Penistone, these village stocks are still standing.

The barrow and gibbet from the south

Combe, England

Combe Gibbet

Death hangs in the air here, where a 17th-century gibbet has been erected on a Neolithic tomb.

186 Fleet Street

London, England

186 Fleet Street

The (fictional) address of Sweeney Todd's bloody barbershop.

Jane Austen's name is emblazoned at the top of the telephone box.

Steventon, England

Jane Austen's Telephone Box

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.

Causey Arch

Stanley, England

Causey Arch

The world’s oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge.

'The Queen' replica on display.

Windsor, England

'The Queen' Locomotive

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

Herne Bay Museum

Herne Bay, England

Herne Bay Museum

Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.

Pie and mash comes with the traditional parsley liquor.

London, England

M. Manze

The oldest surviving “eel, pie, and mash” shop in London is renowned for its infamous jellied eels.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children

London, England

Former Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

The History Tree, Hale

Hale, England

The Giant's Grave

Final resting place of John Middleton "The Childe of Hale."

South African hops add their own distinctive character to the beers here.

London, England

Eko Brewery and Taproom

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

Fleet Air Arm Memorial

London, England

Fleet Air Arm Memorial

A haunting monument dedicated to the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.

Where Argleton should be.

Aughton, England

Argleton, Lancashire

The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.

Walls of the abbey

Farnham, England

Waverley Abbey

The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.

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