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

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

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

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

England's most notorious suicide spot.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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