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

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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.

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

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

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

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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