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

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

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

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

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

A comprehensive look at the art of Joaquín Sorolla in his former home in Madrid.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

One of the oldest brick structures in Freetown.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.