A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

The famous Alice Liddell designed this memorial after losing her sons in World War I.

According to legend, a noble knight and a terrible dragon lie beneath this storied hill.

A picturesque garden with a surprising past.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

Discovered on a shipwreck after more than 400 years, this Renaissance ratter tells a very waggly tale.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

These shopping center benches are actually a modern art installation.

A storied British pub where customers leave messages in the walls.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Gustave Eiffel's masterpiece until the Eiffel Tower was built.

The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.