The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

This eclectic antique shop is home to the taxidermy remains of a celebrity lion named Simba.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.