Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

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

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

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

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

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.