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

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

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

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.