What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

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

This sculpture of Edward of Woodstock is surrounded by eight Victorian lamp bearers.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

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

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

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

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.