The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

A locomotive that was captured as a prisoner of war is now recognized as a WWII memorial.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

More stones than Stonehenge, all scattered within a windswept landscape sure to enchant 'Outlander' fans.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

An octagonal folly tower overlooking the sea.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

Final resting place of John Middleton "The Childe of Hale."

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

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