Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

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

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.