It’s fun to stay at the YMCA… but at this London outpost, it’s even more fun to eat the Bombay aloo.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.