This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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