England's greatest repository of Old Masters paintings, with works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, and more
A small, free city museum of London life, Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art, and Roman ruins in the basement
A gallery of some of the greatest hits of British painting and sculpture
This late 19C Romantic offshoot offered a, well, a romanticized reinterpretation of the Medieval style
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.