This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

A group of committed locals restored this centuries-old windmill to its original condition.

The world's first consecrated windmill.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

This Art Deco house is home to the world's largest collection of Dora Gordine's paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

This informal museum is a magical trove of anonymous art collected from car boots and flea markets.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.