Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

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

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

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

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

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.