This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

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

Likely the first car with an internal combustion engine constructed in the United Kingdom.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.