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A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

The oldest surviving “eel, pie, and mash” shop in London is renowned for its infamous jellied eels.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

Once part of a magnificent Tudor palace, this wine cellar is a time capsule underneath the Ministry of Defence.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

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.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A totem pole of heads to represent the different stages of life.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.