A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

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

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

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

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."