Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

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

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

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

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

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

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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