A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

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

The London statue that imitates passersby.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."