This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

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

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.