Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

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

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

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.