These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to the legendary King Alfred the Great.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St. John's Precinct and Market.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

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