These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Carved initials which are nearly 500 years old preserve the deposed Queen's presence at Hampton Court Palace.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.