The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.