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The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

A late 18th-century jail.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

A replica of the famed statue far from home.

The world's largest collection of artifacts from our history of industrial gas use is hard to simply pass.

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

This old village lock-up is known as the "round house," but it is actually octagonal.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.