The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

The world's oldest model village.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

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

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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.