A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

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

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

Two tombstones associated with the much-beloved children's story.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Chelsea's soldiers were given strict orders when crossing this historic bridge.