A miniature of a lighthouse acts as a beacon for what transpires inside this location.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

One of Edinburgh's most popular works of street art is located well off the beaten path.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

The last remaining bottle-shaped kilns in Scotland stand alone in an Edinburgh suburb.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.