The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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