Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

This popular square's history as the former site of a church is right beneath your feet.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

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

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

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

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

A plaque is all that remains of a lost Oxford transport hub.