Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

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

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A student driver's nightmare.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.