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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

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

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

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

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

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

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

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.