This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

You can climb to the top of the column built to honor the "father of British inland navigation."

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

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

An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

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

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

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

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.