Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.