This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

This inn of the court provides a fascinating window into London’s legal and architectural history.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

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

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

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

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

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

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