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

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

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

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

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.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

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

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.