These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.

A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

Legend says this public grazing area hasn't been plowed for thousands of years.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.