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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

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

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

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.