The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

The Birthplace of the Englishman who founded the A.C. Milan football club.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

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

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

A small museum that celebrates the history and culture of the LGBTQ community in England.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

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

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.