This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

The tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

A comfortable-looking armchair and a grandfather clock have been sitting on this sidewalk for the last 30 years.

A stone obelisk towering over the surrounding countrysides beckons hikers across the rolling moors.

The longest cutting on the M62 contains some surprises—though it's best to leave the motorway to appreciate them.

The house in the middle of the motorway.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

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

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