This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.