For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

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

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

The church is gone, but the graves and legends remain.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

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