The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

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

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

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

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.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.