Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A student driver's nightmare.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.