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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The wooden grave marker of a railroad worker who died in a freak whirlwind.

This plaque remembers a grave mistake that led to one local woman being buried alive.

Where an 11th-century flying monk crash landed after attempting to take to the skies.

Scars from the English Civil War mar this medieval sanctuary.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

Hundreds of huge, centuries-old horseshoes adorn the walls of this nontraditional 12th-century castle.

The sanctuary seems to either float atop the water or sink into the dirt, depending on the water level.

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.