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

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

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

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.