Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.