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

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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

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

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

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

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

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.