This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.