Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

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

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

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

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

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

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

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