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

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.