The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

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

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

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

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

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

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

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