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A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's old-school healing garden.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The final resting place of one of the most important figures in the world of tea.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.