A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.