The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A student driver's nightmare.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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 collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

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

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.