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.”

Tucked away in a London Tube station, this 1920s linear clock shows the time across the world all at once.

A network of bells in the pubs and restaurants around Westminster alerts politicians when it's time to cast their votes.

This river ramp was once used by the elephants of a local circus.

A retirement home for soldiers that can trace its history to the Elizabethan era and beyond.

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

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

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

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

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

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The village silk mill weaving Oscar-winning ribbons.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

Once the site of medieval pilgrimage for its healing powers, this well was lost and later rediscovered.

An obsolete, long-forgotten advertising character lingers on this Sainsbury’s balcony railings.

A hidden plaque is the only reminder of the lost palace where two storied English kings were born.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

Inside this chapel, Victorian jailers took the separate system to new levels.

A medieval relic whose great hall once hosted Mayflower pilgrims, one of Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives, and plenty of royal intrigue.

Once the largest factory complex in all of Europe, this converted shopping center celebrates its industrial past in a big way.