The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

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

This trail follows unique stone railroad tracks and a historic waterway to the south coast of Devon.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

A sense of bewilderment encounters visitors when they happen upon this former railway bridge.

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.