Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

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

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

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

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

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

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

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

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

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

This dramatic monument in Colombia honors a little-known indigenous fighter for independence.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.