A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

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

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

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

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.