Edinburgh, Scotland
Blair Street Underground Vaults
A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.
London, England
The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.
London, England
More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.
London, England
These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.
London, England
Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.
London, England
The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Bicheno, Australia
Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.
Richmond, Australia
It's beautiful, it's haunted and its claim to fame is that it's the oldest existing stone arch bridge in Australia.