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London, England

Anaesthesia Heritage Centre

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.
Cambridge, England

Ascension Parish Burial Ground

The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.
Harrogate, England

Old Swan Hotel

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.
London, England

Rolling Bridge

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.
Cambridge, England

The Eagle

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

Ruins of Hallsands

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.
Knaresborough, England

Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.
London, England

Electric Avenue

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."
Shropshire, England

Offa's Dyke

Britain’s longest ancient monument, this great 8th century earthwork was built to mark the boundary between what would become England and Wales.
Bristol, England

Vale Street

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.
London, England

Alfred Hitchcock's London Flat

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.
Kent, England

The Resting Place of Pocahontas

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.
London, England

'Monument for a Dead Parrot'

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

Scafell Pike

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.
Stoke Heath, England

The Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.
Hobro, Denmark

Verdenskortet

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.
Bletchley, England

National Museum of Computing

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Greenwich Meridian Trail

This long-distance walking route follows the Prime Meridian line as it passes through England.
Dorset, England

Old Harry Rocks

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.
Cornwall, England

Mên-an-Tol (Circle Stone)

A circle stone within a stone circle.
Rothwell, England

Rothwell Bone Crypt

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Liverpool, England

Penny Lane

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.
London, England

Black Cats of Carreras Cigarette Factory

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.
London, England

Get Stuffed

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.