Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

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

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.