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

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.