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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

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

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

A collection of early 19th century trams set in a reconstructed period village.

A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

This imaginative sculpture is a memorial to this town's former mining industry.

Lord Byron's embalmed body lies within this medieval church.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

This park and coal mine heritage site is home to two of the last steam winding engines in the UK.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.