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

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

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

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

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."