Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

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

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

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

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