This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

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

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

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

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.