This multicolored meandering masterpiece is Britain's longest bench.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

It's believed Matilda Fitzwalter's life was the basis for the famed literary figure.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

The author of Alice in Wonderland spent his final years at this whimsical Victorian home.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

This slice of 1960s Danish modernism does not conform to the Oxford college stereotypes.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

This Tudor-era castle was once part of King Henry VIII's plan to protect England from invasion.

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

A mineral spring that became all the rage in 17th-century England.

A winding cave grotto walkway built to provide employment for veterans after World War I.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

This vintage weapons display would be the perfect place for bibliophiles to hold out in a zombie apocalypse.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.