These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

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

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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

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

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

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.

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

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

A striking bronze sculpture of a Roman goddess with two hound dogs for company.