A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

London's old-school healing garden.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

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

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.

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

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

A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.