Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

A retirement home for soldiers that can trace its history to the Elizabethan era and beyond.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

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.

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

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

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

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.