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

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

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

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

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.