The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

The longest Champagne Bar in Europe, if not the world

The Underground railway station and its Cubist/Art Deco statue are so evocative of 1920s/30s London that one almost expects to see Poirot on the stairs.

A small wedge of East Berlin was once on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall

Likely the world’s only place where you’re meant to skate on top of cars.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

The Guinness Book acknowledged one of the biggest and oldest collections of computer games, featuring a strange 'pain machine' that blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real world

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.

At Bank station, the tunneling shield that built the original Waterloo & City line tunnel is hiding in plain sight

The world’s first permanent museum dedicated to female genitalia.

A series of sculptures, “sitting” directly on top of Berlin's existing street lamps, addressing the overlooked topic of urban light pollution.

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

This striking clock tower was once part of the Singer sewing machine factory.

Many of the tombs contain victims of yellow fever epidemics.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

For centuries, one side of this basilica has integrated local archaeological finds.

The purported midpoint in London from which all distances are measured has a tragic love story at its core

A lone medieval church tower marooned among the City of London's skyscrapers

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

One of the most haunted places in London...or is it?

A timeline of London history on the Thames Path, installed in 2014

The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event