A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

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

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

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

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

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

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

The sculptural remains of the last home of a legendary Dada artist.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

These remarkable cascades are the jewels of Upper Tees.

The rust covering this old mine's abandoned buildings matches the red pigment it once produced.