WWII artifacts, including the building itself.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

The undercroft is a spectacular example of medieval Cistercian architecture.

A memorial to American oil drillers who volunteered to travel secretly to England in 1943 and work in the U.K.'s only oil field.

The final resting place of hundreds of Polish airmen who died fighting the Nazis in Britain.

Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.