A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

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

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

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

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

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

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

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.