Buried next to Pompeii, this lesser-known Roman villa was the opulent vacation home of Emperor Nero's wife.

This enchanting hill is home to fairy lore and a sinister local mystery.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

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

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

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

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

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.