This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

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

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.