A lasting remnant of The Blitz.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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.

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

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.