The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

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

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."