The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

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

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

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

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.