A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

This plaque in one of London's oldest public hospitals commemorates the first meeting of two of Britain's most famous literary heroes: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

On the eve of a condemned prisoner's death, this bell rang 12 times outside their cell.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.