Oxford, England
Pitt Rivers Museum
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
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Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Oxford, England
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
London, England
This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.
Manchester, England
A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Oxford, England
One of Europe's oldest libraries.
London, England
Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.
London, England
Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.
Barnard Castle, England
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Holywell, Wales
The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Avebury, England
The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
Glasgow, Scotland
A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.
Eyam, England
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
London, England
A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
London, England
Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.
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.
London, England
London's old-school healing garden.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Bournemouth, England
A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.