This black cat was actually designed to ward off bad luck.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

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

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

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

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

The (fictional) address of Sweeney Todd's bloody barbershop.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

This building contains a door only used by members of the royal family.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Prank chair from an 18th-century Danish royal court shows the eternal popularity of fart jokes.

A somber statue commemorating a Danish merfolk-tale.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

The house where a Danish physicist discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism.

Denmark’s oldest bakery is home to the 'Wednesday Snail,' one of the best cinnamon rolls on the planet.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.