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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

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

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

This rocky outcrop served as a quarry for some of the bluestones that sit at the center of Stonehenge.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

Glasgow's own "tipsy" temperance monument.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.