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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

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

A headstone notes where the most famous of Robin Hood's legendary Merry Men is reportedly buried.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.