Victorian

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.