Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The purported midpoint in London from which all distances are measured has a tragic love story at its core

An archway adorned with vulnerable flora and fauna.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.

This sanitized yet surreal depiction of a Greek fertility god looks over a square in one of central London’s residential areas.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

If you can’t dive into a whisky cask, this swimming pool might be the next best thing. 

An unusually shaped lighthouse with origins rooted in heartbreak.

Several bricks indicate the various flood levels this crossing has survived over the centuries.

This remote Scottish island has the only round church in the nation.

According to local legend, this church was built with two doors, so that residents of two rival villages had their own entrances.

A former church that has been chronicling the Scottish island of Islay's rich history since the 70s.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

Drive or walk through part of a former medieval monastery

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

A historic manor with a priest hole you can stand up in, the last surviving vestments from a dissolved abbey, and centuries of art on display.

The poet’s tombstone keeps getting vandalized by her fans.

A ruined farmhouse that inspired an (inaccurate) illustration for Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights.”

Some of the most enduring novels in English literature were written within the walls of this Georgian-era building.