South East England
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A neo-Palladian villa built to showcase one earl’s Grand Tour art collection, and the birthplace of the English landscape garden — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, Beatles filming locations included.
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Once the largest brick building in Europe and the star of Pink Floyd’s Animals album cover, now a shopping, dining and entertainment district — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit.
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London’s largest Royal Park, a walled deer park since 1637 and the setting for Bertrand Russell’s childhood — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, flying field included.
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Henry VIII’s favourite palace, seized from Cardinal Wolsey and later remodelled by Christopher Wren — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, ice rink and hedge maze included.
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A working royal garden since 1759, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and home to the world’s largest botanical collection — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit.
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Free to enter, home to 80 million specimens and the blue whale skeleton known as Hope — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, earthquake simulator included.
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The world’s first national public museum, free to enter since 1759, and home to the Rosetta Stone — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, including the once-in-a-millennium Bayeux Tapestry exhibition.
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The oldest and largest occupied castle in the world, home to 40 monarchs since William the Conqueror, and still a working weekend residence for King Charles III — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit.
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A royal home since 1689, Queen Victoria’s birthplace, and still a working residence for the Prince and Princess of Wales — here’s the deep history and everything you need to plan a visit.
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The working office and London residence of the monarch since 1837, and the backdrop to the Changing the Guard — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit.