Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

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