A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

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

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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."

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

A student driver's nightmare.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.