The Sherlock Holmes

Until 1957, this was the Northumberland Arms — and before that, the Northumberland Hotel, which may be the one Conan Doyle used in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Whitbread bought the entire Festival of Britain Sherlock Holmes exhibit after its world tour and installed it upstairs: a full recreation of 221B Baker Street behind plate glass, curated by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. The building dates from 1736. It's a Greene King pub now, and yes, it's touristy, but the recreation is genuinely detailed — Persian slipper for the tobacco, gasogene for Watson's soda, jack-knife for the correspondence.