Nottingham, England
The Exchange Murals
These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.
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Nottingham, England
These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.
Southwell, England
Exquisite carvings of leaves, Green Men, and the occasional dragon adorn a medieval chapter house.
Lincoln, England
Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.
London, England
Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.
London, England
Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.
Nottingham, England
An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.
London, England
These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.
London, England
The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.
London, England
The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.
Nottingham, England
A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.
Nottingham, England
The Birthplace of the Englishman who founded the A.C. Milan football club.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
Louisville, Kentucky
The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.
London, England
Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.
Stapleford, England
Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.
London, England
Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.
London, England
There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.
London, England
After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
Houghton le Spring, England
The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.
London, England
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.