This small Milan street is filled with colorful homes and a rich history.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

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

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

You will not be able to miss this building.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A student driver's nightmare.