A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

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

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

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

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.