Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

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

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.