The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

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

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

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

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

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

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.