When in London, do as the Londoners do: the Gloucester Road station is where you'll catch the Piccadilly, District, and Circle lines on the "tube."

The Millennium Eye, actually an enormous ferris wheel from which you can see all of London and the Thames River valley, was built for the millennial celebrations in 1999. Here we see it from Lambeth Palace Bridge, across from the Houses of Parliament.

The Houses of Parliament, England's legislative center, were built in the neo-Gothic style so as to resemble a medieval town hall. Here they are seen from the Lambeth Palace Bridge, over the Thames River.

Lambeth Palace, across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament, dates from the late Middle Ages. It is the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury

The famous domed reading room of the former British Library is now enclosed within a new wing of the British Museum at Great Russell Square.

The new British Library at St. Pancras, watched over by a statue of William Blake's divine geometer measuring creation.

Faber and Faber, at Russell Square, where T. S. Eliot supported himself while writing poetry.

At Oxford University, about an hour's train or bus ride from central London, see the Radcliffe Camera, a round library.

Cambridge University: Trinity College, alma mater of Prince Charles.

Punting on the River Cam, which gives its name to the city of Cambridge, about 90 minutes from central London by train.

Salisbury, about 2 hours west of central London by train, is the setting of novels by Anthony Trollope. It is also the home of the magnificent medieval cathedral that houses this clock, made in 1386 and still ticking.

Tintagel, on the coast of Cornwall, the legendary site of King Arthur's birth.

A medieval shopping mall at the town square of Chester, in Cheshire, by the Welsh border.