Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

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

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

London's old-school healing garden.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.