The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

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

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

This tower was constructed to commemorate the man who helped bring true democracy to the United Kingdom.

Exquisite carvings of leaves, Green Men, and the occasional dragon adorn a medieval chapter house.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

The charming collection illustrates life in Lincolnshire in the 18th through 20th centuries.

This police call box harkens back to an era of pre-radio communications, and has a rather unique feature.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

The undercroft is a spectacular example of medieval Cistercian architecture.