The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

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

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This ancient castle has been abandoned since the Edwardian conquest of Wales.

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

During this yearly Welsh swimming race, competitors tread through the fetid waters of a bog trench.

A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

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

This sculpture of Edward of Woodstock is surrounded by eight Victorian lamp bearers.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

The last surviving roundhouse in the United Kingdom also plays host to a popular annual beer and music festival.

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.