The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

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

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

A historic, reportedly haunted pub that provided inspiration for several famous adventure novels.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

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

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

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

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

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

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.