Catacombs turned marketplace.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A student driver's nightmare.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

You will not be able to miss this building.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."