This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.