The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

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A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The oldest working Brewery in Britain.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Inside a Scottish castle hangs the tattered remains of a flag with murky origins and supposed magic powers.

An ancient Roman altar named after Robert the Bruce.

The ruins of this magnificent Scottish castle blend both Gothic and Renaissance architectural styles.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.