Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

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

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

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

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.