Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

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.

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

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

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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.

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

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

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

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

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.