It's believed Matilda Fitzwalter's life was the basis for the famed literary figure.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.