A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St. John's Precinct and Market.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

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

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

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

This Victorian gate contains cryptic inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

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

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.