The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

This plaque in one of London's oldest public hospitals commemorates the first meeting of two of Britain's most famous literary heroes: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This Art Deco house is home to the world's largest collection of Dora Gordine's paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

This peaceful park with centuries of history hides in an overlooked section of South London.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.