One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This inn of the court provides a fascinating window into London’s legal and architectural history.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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

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

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A hidden path at the National Theatre lets you look behind the scenes of the latest productions.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

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

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

On top of a hill, this Catholic church overlooks the most Catholic island in Greece.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.