This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.

During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

A haunted medieval church, a ceremonial stone circle, and a burial ground are all that's left of this community lost to the Black Death.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

One of the oldest cathedrals in the U.K. houses a priceless early manuscript.

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

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

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

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

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.