This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

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

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

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.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

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