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Canterbury, England
Beaney House of Art and Knowledge
A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.
51.2796, 1.0791
London, England
Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
51.5154, -0.1159
Rochester, England
Rochester Castle
This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.
51.3897, 0.5031
Southend-on-Sea, England
Southend Pier Railway
This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."
51.5152, 0.7217
Bodiam, England
Bodiam Castle
A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.
51.0023, 0.5435
Rye, England
The Mermaid Inn
This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.
50.9500, 0.7321
Kent, England
Dog Collar Museum
A showcase of canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function.
51.2524, 0.6337
Margate, England
Margate Shell Grotto
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.
51.3879, 1.3894
Birchington-on-Sea, England
Powell-Cotton Ethnographic Collection
A vast archive of cultural artifacts collected from numerous expeditions across Africa and Asia.
51.3688, 1.3099
Birchington-on-Sea, England
Powell-Cotton Dioramas
An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.
51.3668, 1.3161
Lympne, England
Portus Lemanis
The ruins of a Roman fort lie in the shadows of an imposing medieval castle.
51.0720, 1.0239
Canterbury, England
Crooked House
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
51.2816, 1.0820
Canterbury, England
The Great Cloister and Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
51.2798, 1.0828
Canterbury, England
Alphege Windows
A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.
51.2798, 1.0828
Lympne, England
Spencer Roberts Room
Its walls are adorned with exquisite murals of the natural world, transforming it into an ecologist’s Sistine Chapel.
51.0757, 0.9997
Sandgate, England
Sandgate Castle
This Tudor-era castle was once part of King Henry VIII's plan to protect England from invasion.
51.0734, 1.1489
Sandgate, England
House of H.G. Wells
In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.
51.0754, 1.1540
Folkestone, England
Folkestone White Horse
One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.
51.1011, 1.1388
Dover, England
Dover Castle
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.
51.1288, 1.3234
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