19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."