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This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

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

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

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

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

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

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