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

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

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.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.