Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.