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

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

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

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

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

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

This museum in the famously blue neighborhood of Sidi Bou Saïd showcases a traditional Tunisian lifestyle.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

The Scottish Reformation leader's grave was paved over and is now a parking lot.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."