Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

This black cat was actually designed to ward off bad luck.

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

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

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Two tombstones associated with the much-beloved children's story.