Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.