This rock was donated to the museum by an inspired young visitor.

The site of a dress rehearsal for D-Day that ended in disaster.

This simple wooden cross is said to mark the grave of an unknown sailor who washed ashore nearby.

This blue plaque commemorates the unexpected origin of one of the world's most beloved deserts.

An Iron Age hill fort turned scenic nature park.

This church is home to a 1,600-year-old tree, but also a mysterious carved figure who may have been a pagan idol.

This tiny church is one of England's smallest.

A sense of bewilderment encounters visitors when they happen upon this former railway bridge.

One of the largest medieval barns in England and architecturally one of the finest.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

This restored 19th-century calender, a machine used in rubber manufacturing, commemorates the town's local industry.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

A grand Wetherspoon pub set in a former opera house dating back to 1902.

A small tower where a philosopher once speculated on human nature and morality.

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

On a remote footpath and surrounded by beautiful Sussex countryside sits Sussex’s smallest cemetery.

According to local folklore, this odd face on a wall of Rudyard Kipling's former home can bring visitors a bit of luck.

An unusual seafront museum hides behind an unassuming Ventnor giftshop.

In the 1930s, people used to take boats from the mainland to see this Art Deco venue.

This toothy tower topper commemorates a valuable shark that washed ashore nearby.

Soldiers carved these regimental badges into the chalk hills in remembrance of those who died in World War I.

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

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

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.