An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

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

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

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