This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

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