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

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

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.