This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

A shrine-like museum entirely dedicated to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

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

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

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

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

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

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.