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

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

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The spectacular subterranean collection includes dazzling minerals, including a piece of "kryptonite."

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.