A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

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

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

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

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

On the eve of a condemned prisoner's death, this bell rang 12 times outside their cell.

One of the oldest remaining Catholic churches in England is home to the hand of a 7th-century saint.