This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

The final resting place of a celebrated First Nations man who traveled through England with a snake oil salesman.

This popular square's history as the former site of a church is right beneath your feet.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

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

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

This industrial chimney looks rather out of place, isolated in the middle of an attractive woodland.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.