Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

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

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

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

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.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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