The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

One of the four clock faces on this church is mismatched, in a nod to a historic slight.

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

All unmarked mute swans on the Thames are owned by the Queen per a tradition that began in the 12th century.

This is Britain's one and only clock concealed in the pavement.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

This modest relic, with rich history as a strategic fort through multiple eras.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The bust of a 15th-century Albanian leader in the middle of London.

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The last vestiges of a magnificent Victorian-era train station can be found in this pub.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

This stone spire holds a unique place in the region's history.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.