This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

This plaque in one of London's oldest public hospitals commemorates the first meeting of two of Britain's most famous literary heroes: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

A haunting monument dedicated to the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

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

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

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

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

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

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

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

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