A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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

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

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

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

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

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

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

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.