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

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

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

A bridge that has seen many reiterations over its lifetime.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

A nomadic museum known for its art exhibitions about religion and faith.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.