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

A high-end clothing boutique with a curious basement art installation.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.