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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.