This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

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