The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

London's old-school healing garden.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This giant Canadian coin is a monument to the artist who created its iconic emblem.

Accessible only by train, the beauty of Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park is worth the journey.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.