Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.

This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This holy spring and it's well has been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

In this quiet village, a blue plaque marks the spot where the famous fictional detective retired.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

This ancient causeway can flood daily, leaving Mersea Island as a true island for hours at a time, and cutting its 7,000 residents off from the mainland.

During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.

From battleships to Roman vessels, this museum explores the depths of shipwrecks in the region.

A sincere and thoughtful art installation, mistaken by many as a statue of a penis.

A real Hawker Hunter jet in the middle of Basingstoke.

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

Once believed to be a sacred Roman legionary symbol, this bronze figure inspired the 1954 novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth.'

The accidental discovery of this gilt bronze head led archaeologists to find the Roman Baths in the city of Bath

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

A former Victorian swimming pool is now a tranquil and secluded park.

The walls of this village church are decorated by two unique religious works of art.

These public toilets were used as a dead drop by pro-Soviet spies to trade British military secrets during the Cold War.

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

A statue of the heroine who stopped time to save her betrothed.

Amazing collection of folly buildings in Cobham, Surrey.

A rare example of a building constructed specifically for catching eels.