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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

The world's most elegant power lines.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.