The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.