Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The first regular high-definition TV transmissions were made from this seemingly out-of-place mast located on one corner of a Victorian-era entertainment venue.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.