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

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Some of Britain's best-preserved Roman walls, above the Waveney marshes

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

A gigantic mechanical bull rages over unsuspecting passengers at Birmingham’s central station.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

Named after a lodging site that existed nearby, a bridge has existed at this location since 1455.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

A Reformation-era fiery figurehead once denoted this location as a print shop.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.