Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.