This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

At the center of London’s oldest roundabout stands an obelisk that was erected in 1771, but spent several decades elsewhere.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.

With a history stretching back to the 16th century, this pub has a few stories to tell.

Once a 19th-century refuge for immigrants, this pub has hosted performances by Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

This inn of the court provides a fascinating window into London’s legal and architectural history.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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