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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

The world's oldest model village.

This preserved puppy was an adorable beacon of charity.

Site of the golf match between James Bond and Goldfinger.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.