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

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

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.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.