One of London's oldest houses contains a mixture of both old and modern features.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Don't worry, they don't use antique scissors.

You will not be able to miss this building.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

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

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A recreation of a sign that Charles Dickens used to see on his walk home.

At the center of London’s oldest roundabout stands an obelisk that was erected in 1771, but spent several decades elsewhere.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.

Located alongside the famous Salamanca Market and in sight of Parliament House, this large and elaborate monument is hard to miss, split into two sections and standing some 14 meters tall.

The oldest subscription library in Britain was started by lead miners in southwest Scotland.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

The most easterly point on mainland Australia offers dramatic ocean views.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

One of a series of sculptures making a statement about sea-level rise in the United Kingdom.