A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

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

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

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

Prehistoric sandstone menhir with Early Bronze Age cup and ring markings, also known as Robin Hood's Stone.

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?

A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

The former home of a railway legend and the site of a gigantic labyrinth.

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.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

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

Britain’s longest ancient monument, this great 8th century earthwork was built to mark the boundary between what would become England and Wales.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.

The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.