London, England
Ruined Victorian Folly
Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.
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London, England
Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
Roslin, Scotland
A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.
London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
London, England
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
London, England
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
London, England
This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.