An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This toothy tower topper commemorates a valuable shark that washed ashore nearby.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

This seemingly normal pathway actually forms a giant fingerprint.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

Tucked between a side street and a theater, this arch once led to a prestigious riding school, and now opens to a courtyard and community garden.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

These shopping center benches are actually a modern art installation.

An Iron Age hill fort turned scenic nature park.