The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

The world's oldest model village.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

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

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

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

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.