Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

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

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

A towering work of stone and philosophy that was constructed using ancient Hindu science.

This bright pink Gandhi memorial was built so that sunshine hits a specific spot on his birthday.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

At 8,000 feet, the world's highest tea estate draws visitors for both its products and its panoramic views.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

World's tallest monolithic statue has served as a pilgrimage site since its completion in 993 CE.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.