This tunnel was an amazing feat of engineering and an economic success, but the coal mine which it served closed after only 18 years of the tunnel's use, but in WW2 the tunnel was converted to an air raid shelter

The statue of a remarkable woman placed on a historic hillside with an almost forgotten story

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

A statue dedicated to the story behind the founded of the city.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.

A surreal depiction of a South American god is actually filled with deeper symbolism.

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

The poet’s tombstone keeps getting vandalized by her fans.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

A rare example of a gritstone cross in this region of the United Kingdom.

This life-sized sculpture has gained a reputation for bringing luck to anybody who touches it.

A towering steel-and-bronze figure whose playful nickname outshines its official message of hope

A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.

A 12th-century church that houses a dark creature.