A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

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.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.