An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

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

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

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

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

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

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

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

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

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.