This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

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

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

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

The oldest cemetery in Belgium.

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.