An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.