London, England
Lock & Co.
Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.
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London, England
Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.
London, England
Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.
Buxton, England
This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Ware, England
Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.
London, England
A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
London, England
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
Weston, England
Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.
London, England
Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
London, England
London's old-school healing garden.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
London, England
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.