17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

This early Norman castle was the first historical monument protected by an act of Parliament.

The remains of the man who founded Pennsylvania lie in an unassuming grave in the English countryside.

These shopping center benches are actually a modern art installation.

This seemingly normal pathway actually forms a giant fingerprint.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

This desolate boat was once a key form of public transportation for Portslade residents.

This Tudor cottage is adorned with many canary-clasping cats, which originally served as a reminder to a local clergyman of his pet's murderous ways.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.