Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

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

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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.

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

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.