This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

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

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

This ingenious engineering solution was built to stop the "theft" of canal water.

A 168-foot tower, part of the abandoned Chester Leadworks facility.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Chester Cathedral is home to a unique painting crafted on a canvas of cobwebs.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

This 19th-century performer's gravestone identifies her as "the smallest woman ever in this Kingdom."

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.