A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.