A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

London's old-school healing garden.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

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

One of the tallest maypoles remaining in England in one of its smaller villages.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.