A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

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

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.