This Iron Age hill fort remained hidden until a series of storms revealed its history.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

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.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This historic pub is a hidden gem for fans of Lewis Carroll.

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

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

Music boxes like you've never imagined.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.

Parts of this former military training ground may have inspired parts of J.R.R. Tolkien's famous fantasy series.