A memorial to American oil drillers who volunteered to travel secretly to England in 1943 and work in the U.K.'s only oil field.

A 13th-century inn where the ill-fated King Charles I spent his last night of freedom.

The final resting place of hundreds of Polish airmen who died fighting the Nazis in Britain.

This English medieval castle is where King John died of dysentery.

A well preserved remnant of the English Civil War.

A creepy tree with a local legend that inspired a nearby theme park ride.

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

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.