Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

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

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.