The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

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

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

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.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.