London, England
The Vincent Street Fireplace
A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.
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London, England
A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.
London, England
A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.
London, England
Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.
London, England
The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.
London, England
At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.
London, England
A statue honoring a preeminent 19th-century dandy and important figure of men’s fashion.
London, England
A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.
London, England
This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.
England
Stone carvings celebrate the legacy of a now-defunct theatre.
London, England
An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.
London, England
Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.
London, England
The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.
London, England
This statue in Holland Park might be one of London’s oldest outdoor statues, but its exact origins are unknown.
London, England
A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.
London, England
Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
Brighton, England
This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.
Brighton, England
Regency-era excess on the English Coast.
Hove, England
This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.
Hove, England
An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.
Hove, England
These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.