Places Edited by jooniur

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.