Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

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

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

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.