A pile of earth left over from a water supply project was converted into an anti-aircraft installation during World War II.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

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

A small statue shaped like the grill of a Rolls-Royce marks the suburban location where the company’s first automobiles were manufactured.

The world's oldest model village.

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

A student driver's nightmare.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.