Nightingale floors: the Japanese flooring system used for alerting castle lords to nighttime attacks by ninja assassins
St Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, praised for its architecture, wins special attention for a door that some believe inspired J. R. R. Tolkien
Salisbury Cathedral could possess the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, still capable of chiming the hour
The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France