A statue for a zoo that was never built.

A vintage media store and safe haven for cinema buffs who love 16mm films shown on vintage projectors.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

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

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Inside a London bookstore, a fireplace that once belonged to the illustrator responsible for a famous set of tarot cards.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A secluded green oasis amidst the towering skyscrapers, bears an unusual moniker that reflects one of the city's oldest guilds.

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

Near the site where the English Archbishop was born, you can find an emblem in the shape of a pilgrim's badge.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.