Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

The last fully working Victorian Turkish bath in England.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

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

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.

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

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

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

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

This abandoned, partly demolished building is now home to beautiful graffiti and murals.