England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.

A public art project to commemorate a tumultuous period in Derby's history.

Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.

This old village lock-up is known as the "round house," but it is actually octagonal.

A late 18th-century jail.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.