A rare memorial paying homage to an altruistic woman from the 19th-century.

A public art piece that barely gets recognized, but then that might be the point.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

London's old-school healing garden.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

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

The rusting relics of Southampton's former luxurious flying boat industry.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.