An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

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

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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