Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.