With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

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

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The remains of Canada's earliest Chinese pioneers are interred along this picturesque point.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

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

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.