London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.