A vintage fire engine is hidden inside this World War I-era water tower.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

The final resting place of a celebrated First Nations man who traveled through England with a snake oil salesman.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

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

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

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

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

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

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

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

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

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

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

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

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

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.