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

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

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

One of the most studied Iron Age settlements in Europe.

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

This miraculous well is said to heal the sick, grant wishes, and tell the future.

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.

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

Lurking among the classical architecture, rose gardens, and art of this historic country house—a crocodile in a bathtub.

This modest relic, with rich history as a strategic fort through multiple eras.

This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

This water-powered cliffside railway is one of the steepest funiculars in the world.

This towering monument is dedicated in memory of a most unusually named, yet heroic, horse.

Four hundred years ago, this turned-about message was carved into one of Winchester Cathedral's exterior walls.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.