A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

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

This pub has roots dating back to 1430 and serves as the setting for multiple Charles Dickens stories.

The oldest surviving “eel, pie, and mash” shop in London is renowned for its infamous jellied eels.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

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

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.