A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

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

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

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

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

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.