The oldest known metal-mining site in England dates back to the Bronze Age.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

This 20th-century replica of a 13th-century castle has itself fallen into ruin.

A rare labyrinth-style path carved into a historic hill.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

The remains of a historic kiln once used to produce the famous Rockingham porcelain.

English Protestants once criticized this enormous private chapel for being too ornate.

The author of Alice in Wonderland spent his final years at this whimsical Victorian home.

This tower is all that remains of a 19th-century schoolhouse that became a famous music venue before its destruction.

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

A lasting remnant of The Blitz.

The last surviving roundhouse in the United Kingdom also plays host to a popular annual beer and music festival.

This old village lock-up is known as the "round house," but it is actually octagonal.

A story of cutlasses carelessly carving a celibate centenarian's cemetery stone.

The first museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to this woodwind instrument.

This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.

One of London's oldest houses contains a mixture of both old and modern features.

A 13th-century fortified manor house that was once sieged during the English Civil War.

Its walls are adorned with exquisite murals of the natural world, transforming it into an ecologist’s Sistine Chapel.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

Oliver Cromwell marched his army over this narrow bridge to victory at the Battle of Preston in 1648.

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

This abandoned limestone quarry now provides visitors with multiple, breathtaking viewpoints.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.