Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

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

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.