The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.

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

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

The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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