A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

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 beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

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

Though it's not the largest, this one-kilometer outdoor market is reportedly the longest in Europe.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

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