Crich, England
Crich Stand
This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.
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Crich, England
This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.
Mungasdale, Scotland
Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.
Weymouth, England
The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.
Bedale, England
The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.
London, England
Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.
Southwold, England
A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.
Brighton, England
This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.
Alrewas, England
In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.
Chaldon, England
Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.
London, England
East London art gallery showcasing contemporary art from Europe's Eastern Bloc.
Sandown, England
This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.
Fraserburgh, Scotland
An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.
Bath, England
With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.
Oxford, England
Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.
Sheffield, England
A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.
Birkenhead, England
After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.
Cambridge, England
An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.
London, England
The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.
Gateshead, England
Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
London, England
The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.
Bragar, Scotland
A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.
Ely, England
A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
Stockport, England
Great Britain's only hat-making museum.