This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The largest timber structure in Europe.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

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

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

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

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

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

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

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

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