Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.