"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

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

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

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

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

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

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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

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.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

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