When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

This long-distance walking route follows the Prime Meridian line as it passes through England.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

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

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

A dark Victorian well house now plays host to mystical waters and pagan shrines.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.