Unfortunately, on my only visit in England I never made it out of the Heathrow airport. I was flying from New York City to Frankfurt, changing planes at Heathrow.
I lived in Worms, Germany for 18 months and Bremerhaven for almost 6 months. The very first thing that impressed me was the amount of history. I was living in a town that was founded before Rome. It still had sections of wall around the town built by the Romans during the 4th century. There was also a cathedral built during the 11th century. It was very strange to see bullet holes from WW II in those sections of the 4th century Roman wall.
Most of the North American aboriginals were hunter/gathers, and not a society that built many permanent structures. Most of North American history was wiped out during a plague between 1616 and 1619. Ending just one year before the Plymouth colony was established in 1620. In Europe the 17th century Bubonic plague would wipe out 30% of the population. During the 13th century Bubonic plague wiped out ~50%+ of the population in Europe. But in North America more than 90% of the aboriginal population was wiped out, taking their history with them. They still are not entirely sure what killed them.
New Hypothesis for Cause of Epidemic among Native Americans, New England, 1616–1619 - EID Journal, Volume 16, Number 2, February 2010.
Which is why there is so little documented human history in North America prior to 1620.