The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

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

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

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