The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

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

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.