Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

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

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

Chelsea's soldiers were given strict orders when crossing this historic bridge.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

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

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

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

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

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

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

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

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

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

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

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