This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.