This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

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

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

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.

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