This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

A humble ancient well where Scottish knight, Sir William Wallace, took his final drink.

A 19th-century Neoclassical building now housing a Hindu temple represents modern-day Glasgow at its most multicultural.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

This colorful mosaic remembers one of Britain's most deadly peacetime fires.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

A ceramic postbox where visitors can post original poems and creative messages.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

This ordinary-looking rock may have played an important role in a 16th-century Scottish battle.

A rooftop mascot for a vintage Tiki Bar and Restaurant has a varied and interesting history

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

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

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.