Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.