Faringdon, England
Uffington White Horse
The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.
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Faringdon, England
The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.
Salford, England
This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.
Liverpool, England
Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.
Tabley, England
This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.
Bristol, England
There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.
Bristol, England
A medieval cave used to shelter local hermits now holds nearly 200 old Quaker gravestones.
Bath, England
Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.
Corsham, England
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.
Marlborough, England
It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.
Berkeley, England
The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.
Swindon, England
England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.
Uley, England
You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.
Chipping Norton, England
This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
Milbourne, England
A classic red phone box converted into an informal village library.
Swindon, England
There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Hampton Fields, England
Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.
Cheltenham, England
Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.
Crécy-la-Chapelle, France
This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Allouville-Bellefosse, France
Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.
Lyon, France
For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.