The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

The world's oldest model village.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

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

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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