Places Edited by jooniur

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

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

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

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

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

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

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.