Macclesfield, England
Orrery at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.
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Macclesfield, England
One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.
London, England
This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.
London, England
Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.
London, England
A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.
Alnwick, England
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
Winchester, England
This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.
Bath, England
With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
London, England
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
Bourton-on-the-Water, England
Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.
Manchester, England
These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.
Truro, England
Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.
Great Dunmow, England
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.
London, England
A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.
London, England
The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.
London, England
The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.
Keswick, England
Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.
London, England
This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
London, England
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
Nottingham, England
Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.
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
19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.