These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

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

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A student driver's nightmare.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

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