This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

This peaceful park saw the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion in H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds.'

A statue of the heroine who stopped time to save her betrothed.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

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

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

An obsolete, long-forgotten advertising character lingers on this Sainsbury’s balcony railings.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This slice of 1960s Danish modernism does not conform to the Oxford college stereotypes.

A letterbox installed specifically for the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

Beside the pew where C.S. Lewis often sat while attending church, a window filled with characters from his beloved stories.

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

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.