The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Centuries later, the victims of Great Britain's greatest hysteria are finally being remembered.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.