The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

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

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

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

London's old-school healing garden.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

Look up as you explore Baku’s old town to find a monument to the local feline population.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

Once a luxurious flagship of the Soviet Union, this Brutalist structure remains a landmark of Tashkent’s communist past.

Controversially restored in the 1970s, this giant 15th-century mosque is shrouded in legend.