You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.