Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

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

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.