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

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

A doorless and windowless folly in England that evokes curiosity over its mysterious origins.

One of the most studied Iron Age settlements in Europe.

Inspired by the colossal pyramids at Giza, this 15-foot structure is believed to be the first funerary pyramid in Great Britain.

One of the largest hills in New Forest.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

The famous Alice Liddell designed this memorial after losing her sons in World War I.

According to legend, a noble knight and a terrible dragon lie beneath this storied hill.

This local celebrity earned his fame by doing a job no one else dared.

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

This suburban British town holds secrets that would have made the druids proud.

These ruins of Francis Bacon's once-magnificent manor are hidden in the English countryside.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

It's believed emperor Hadrian himself funded this once architectural wonder.

A humble homage to a gravedigger tucked within the dignified English cathedral.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”