This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

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

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

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

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

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

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

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

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.