The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.