Nearly 800 years old, this river lock is now a public park with a former fortified island.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

The wooden grave marker of a railroad worker who died in a freak whirlwind.

This display showcases the culinary equivalent of steel-toe boots during World War I.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

A winding medieval path was used by mourners to carry their dead to the nearest church.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

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

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.