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

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

This sculpture marks the spot where one of the greatest Roman rulers was proclaimed emperor.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

A much-loved local landmark pays tribute to the shipbuilding past of this area.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.