Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

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

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

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

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

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

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This ancient castle has been abandoned since the Edwardian conquest of Wales.

In this small cemetery lies the grave of one of England's greatest football strikers, who died too soon.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

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