A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

This inn of the court provides a fascinating window into London’s legal and architectural history.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

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

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

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

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

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

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

The eternal resting place of the last highwayman hanged in England.

The site of the notorious Great Train Robbery of £2.6 million, one of the biggest heists in English history.

Catacombs turned marketplace.