Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

Carved initials which are nearly 500 years old preserve the deposed Queen's presence at Hampton Court Palace.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

The historic villages and towns of Suffolk are filled with wonky wooden beam houses painted an unusual shade of pink. Unknown to many though, this sweet shade has a bloody history.

This little-known hero has been protecting "The Fens" for close to 400 years, and now from its most powerful challenger yet: climate change.

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

This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

This 12th-century house is one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain.

After this beloved Cambridge character passed away, the community raised funds to provide him with a proper gravestone.

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.

The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.