The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

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

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.