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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

These mysterious mazes carved on the rock may be up to 4,000 years old.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

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.

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

A dark Victorian well house now plays host to mystical waters and pagan shrines.

This panoramic lift provides a futuristic ride up San Pedro Mountain.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.