The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

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

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

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

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

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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