A picturesque garden with a surprising past.

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

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

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

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

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

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.