Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

A student driver's nightmare.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.