This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

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

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

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

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

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

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

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

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.