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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

London's Victorian Tower of Babel.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

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

A student driver's nightmare.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

This little-known hero has been protecting "The Fens" for close to 400 years, and now from its most powerful challenger yet: climate change.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

Climb to the top of this windmill for a scenic panorama and up-close look at wind energy production.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.