One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.