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

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

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

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.