A vintage media store and safe haven for cinema buffs who love 16mm films shown on vintage projectors.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

The niches over the western entrance of Westminster Abbey honor individuals from the 20th century who gave their lives for their Christian beliefs.

How did a fuel storage container become one of the most famous sights in the sporting world of cricket?

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

The final resting place of a miniature monkey.

This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

This peaceful park saw the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion in H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds.'

A statue of the heroine who stopped time to save her betrothed.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

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

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.