Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.