There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

The near loss of the stately fireplaces at this medieval castle spawned some of Britain's most crucial historic preservation laws.

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

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."