Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

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

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

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

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.