An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

A small village in two different countries.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.