This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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

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

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.