Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

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

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

A museum devoted to the science of color.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

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

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

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

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

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.

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

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.