This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

This volcanic plug boasts the longest recorded history of any Scottish stronghold.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The strange behavior of a tween led to allegations of witchcraft and a curse being placed on anybody within earshot.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.