This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The world’s first permanent museum dedicated to female genitalia.

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

It's a mystery as to why this inland village chose the dolphin as its symbol.

A well-studied colony of endangered bats roosts in this abandoned Victorian Gothic mansion.

This abandoned shopping arcade has new life as an art installation.