This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.