Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

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

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

Celebrating the works of a beloved Italian actor, known for such cult films as 'They Call Me Trinity' and 'Watch Out, We’re Mad!'

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.