An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

The near loss of the stately fireplaces at this medieval castle spawned some of Britain's most crucial historic preservation laws.

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

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.