A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Visitors may notice something strange walking through this quaint German town.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.