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

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

In 2013, historians discovered a hidden room devoted to the art of making royals' hot chocolate.

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

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

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

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Carved initials which are nearly 500 years old preserve the deposed Queen's presence at Hampton Court Palace.

This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

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

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

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.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.