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

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

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

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.