Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

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

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.