This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

America's first public mental health facility.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.