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

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

Underneath one of the region's most historic roads lies the home of Plato's successor.