Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

London's old-school healing garden.

Chelsea's soldiers were given strict orders when crossing this historic bridge.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

A network of bells in the pubs and restaurants around Westminster alerts politicians when it's time to cast their votes.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.