A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

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

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

A legend says that if this elaborately decorated glass breaks, the good fortune of its owner's household will also disappear.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

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

This black cat was actually designed to ward off bad luck.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

This reconstructed ancient fort was home to one of the few horse training rings in the Roman Empire.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.