This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

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

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.