The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

A 168-foot tower, part of the abandoned Chester Leadworks facility.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

An impromptu shrine appeared shortly after beloved "Torchwood" character Ianto Jones was killed off the show.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.