This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

You will not be able to miss this building.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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 moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.