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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.