An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Every Friday, Sufi dervishes whirl around the tomb in a trance-like state as part of a sacred ritual called dhikr.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.