Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

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

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

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

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

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