The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

Described by William Wordsworth as a "World of Wonder."

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

A modest stone circle in North Wales.

A thousand year old oak tree survives in Liverpool.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

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

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.