Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

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

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Hidden in the shadow of a rocky fortress is one concubine’s long-forgotten legacy.