Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.

This Roman quarry once held secret masses and smuggler's contraband and is now home to rare species of bats.

This ancient oak tree sheltered accused "witches" in the 17th century.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

The oldest working Brewery in Britain.

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

A remote island holds what claims to be Scotland's smallest cinema.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.