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

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

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

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Discovered on a shipwreck after more than 400 years, this Renaissance ratter tells a very waggly tale.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

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