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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

This figure was cut into the hillside in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.