The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

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

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

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

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

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.