The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

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

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A student driver's nightmare.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

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

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

This five-star hotel was originally a swanky parking garage.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

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

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.