Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

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

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

A legend says that if this elaborately decorated glass breaks, the good fortune of its owner's household will also disappear.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

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

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

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

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

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

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

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.