The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

A palatial former bank building now houses what may be the poshest art venue (and former Tesco) in Belfast.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

A pair of mosaics marks the spot where the last accused witch of Dundee was put to death.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Nestled among the living residents is the final resting place of an apothecary plague victim.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.