The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Tucked away amongst Leadenhall Market’s cobbled passageways is a whimsical little (literally) attraction.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A timeline of London history on the Thames Path, installed in 2014

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

One of the four clock faces on this church is mismatched, in a nod to a historic slight.

The remains of the debtor’s prison that shaped Charles Dickens’ life and writing.

Since 1877, the characters of Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” have been keeping time in this Leeds arcade.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.

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

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