The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.

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

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

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

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

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

Inside a London bookstore, a fireplace that once belonged to the illustrator responsible for a famous set of tarot cards.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This massive metal scallop is a tribute to an English composer who once walked across this beach.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

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

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