This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.