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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

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

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.