The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

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.